Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20161227080015/@comment-30530552-20170104165345

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

5) I see nothing wrong at all with a Semblance that requires Dust to function. It's the same as Semblances that require X to function, which people happily never criticize. Nora, for example. She absorbs Electricity to become stronger. Did all of you happily forget that her Semblance is just as useless as a Dust-less Amalgam if there's no Electricity to absorb?

Semblances that require an object to be present to work at all, are possible. So, to Amalgam I say YES. The worst I can see is the possible Reflection of Personality, but Semblances seem to reflect just 1 trait of the person. I'm pretty sure Qrow has more depth than "Bad Luck", Blake has more depth than "Coward", and Nora has more depth than "Genki Girl". The thing about Nora's power is that it likely works with the environment too, as with non-Dust Lightning stikes. Making a comparison between a power that draws itself from one source as opposed to two separate sources is similar to comparing a Granny Smith apple and a Fuji apple; they're both apples but have a completely different taste.