Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5047068-20141123201355/@comment-25555436-20150128041255

ConradLarson wrote: See now you really are being an arse. I'm sorry that you feel that you must be right and anyone else is an idiot, but hey, that says more about your own insecurities than my IQ.

I've seen/read/listened to plenty of fiction. Illusions usually come in two kinds, aural, and optical illusions. It is not often that both are used together.

If she put up an illusion between the time Roman finished talking, most likely if it is an illusioon semblance, then she would have to maintain the illusion of Roman and her standing there whilst also maintaining a separate illusion keeping her and Roman invisible as they sprint to the bullhead, which was not close by.

If it was a teleportation semblance using glass dust, as I still imagine it is, it still explains both fights with Neo, and that is why I imagine it to be such. You can disagree, and I will disagree and continue to provide my reasons as to why I think it is a teleport over an illusion, but neither of are wrong and neither of us are right until the correct semblance is confirmed. Schroedinger's Cat basically.

Since you seem to shoot down the idea of glass dust before solely because "It's not elemental" (Which no combination of dust can be, because there are only four elements in the sense you're talking about, and that's the four base types of dust) then I implore you to explain to me what Ruby's dust cannisters she loads into Crescent Rose are. For that matter, please tell me which dust Weiss uses for her time-distortion glyph. -Oh, quite wrong there. I don't think I'm always right, just like I don't consider anyone else an idiot. In fact, quite a good number of people in this wiki are smart by my standards, in at least one aspect or subject. But you, are not among them. As for the insecurities part, everyone has insecurities, to deny having them would be a terrible lie.

-Neo seems like a capable fighter, for the moment. I'll assume for now she has enough control over her Semblance to be able to both conceal herself along with Roman, and keep up 2 false images.

-Just to make it clear, I'm not saying your theory is wrong, but that mine is more right. Both may explain both fights, but mine explains more, and unlike your theory, even explains what happened when Yang tried to punch Neo, as shown in the GIF above in the original post. Even Neo "repelling" Yang's punch, yet still standing like if she did nothing at all, is explained by my theory (Neo made an Ilusion, a false image to be precise, and concealed herself. When Yang was going to punch her, Neo attacks her, and Yang doesn't see the attack because she only sees the Ilusion, which is why Neo (False Image) is standing like nothing happened after Yang's hit), as Ilusion makes that moment make sense, while with just Teleportation+"Glass" Dust, it wouldn't.

-Ruby used Earth Dust, located inside CR's bullets, those "cannisters" you speak of, for stronger impact.

-Weiss did not use a "Time-Distortion" glyph, get that out of your head, ok? She used Haste, or in this case Refined Lightning Dust combined with her Glyphs to cause an effect similar to Haste.

What does Haste do? It speeds you up. It doesn't distort time, not at all. All it does, is make you move faster. Nothing more. There's no fancy manipulation of time involved, it just makes you faster, in general.

Now, I know you will mention that "clock" effect when she used it on Blake. Reason for that? Call Back. It was a Call Back to Dead Fantasy. Dead Fantasy itself is 50% Final Fantasy, where the Haste spells have a "clock" effect when used, but it's just for show, to simbolize how the character is generally faster now, in mind and body.

In other words, Weiss did not use anything involving time. All she used, was Lightning Dust, combined with her Glyphs.