Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-2602:306:8359:73C0:2138:A360:895F:BAA3-20180405024025/@comment-4010415-20180411210959

Here's the thing.

Qrow did not actually say that Ruby's Semblance IS "bursting into rose petals". He said that's something that her Semblance DOES.

Qrow: Did you know that crows are a sign of bad luck? Old superstition, but it's how I got my name. See, some people can absorb electricity and some people can burst into rose petals and some people are just born unlucky. My Semblance isn't like most - it's not exactly something I do.

You see how he says "it's not exactly something I do"? That indicates that that's the focus of what he was saying about Nora and Ruby's Semblances. He was not saying that's literally the entirety of their Semblances, he was saying that those are things that their Semblances do.

Nora's Semblance absorbs electricity. Is that the only thing that it does? No. It converts that electricity into strength. So, while Ruby's Semblance can make her burst into rose petals, that doesn't mean her Semblance is not speed.