Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160528034745/@comment-26397825-20160530125948

SpiritedDreaming wrote: I am iffy about his semblance as a whole, because you are literally saying he cannot function without other people. The semblance is a manifestation of their aura and tied into their personality/experiences/family (in the case of he Schnees). To have a semblance that is useless without other people to copy from is basically saying that he is useless without other people in some way.

Also, it goes against the 'individuality' thing the show pushes so much. He doesn't have his own power; he borrows and copies others. Velvet gets away with copying the physical abilities of others because they are physical things; something anyone could learn to use if they wanted to. However, copying unique abilities defies the very definition of 'unique'; how is it unique when some random can just touch you and steal your ability? That's my part on the idea of copying semblances.