Thread:KNN005/@comment-25266931-20170304160915/@comment-26397825-20170306022056

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: GreyStark wrote: Ruby turns into rose petals, Pyrrha dubbing her semblance "speed" was due to her not seeing Ruby in combat that much. Except we saw twice in V2, that Ruby quite obviously does not turn into petals, she literally just moves faster.

Once during the food fight, and the other during her little escapade with Penny.

Her Semblance was, quite literally, Speed. Not any "turns into petals" bullshit. The petals were just a visual cue, like Yang's flames whenever she uses hers. Her Semblance is not "creating flames", in the same way Ruby's is not "turns into petals". Well, she sorta actually did. She spun and turned into that red thing at the end there. In the commentaries, they even say that is a glimpse of her semblance's true potential. So she did start to turn into rose petals in that episode andhadn't developed her true potential yet, which it seems like the rose petals are.