Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-66.171.131.187-20180305214358/@comment-4141313-20180305234658

With the knowledge Monty said it was a glipse as to what her Semblance could "evolve to", its possible to infer that her initial version of her Semblance was in an "incomplete" stage, which makes sense considering she's only 15-16 and would more than likely not have mastered it yet.

So we could go off the obvious and say it was just Super Speed, but with the little scene from the Food Fight, it would seem more apt to describe her Semblance at that stage as turning into a cluster of Rose Petals that propel forward at a rapid burst of speed, then reconfigure into her. As it evolved however, it began to change. Instead of being a single cluster that could only move in short bursts, her form could divide into several clusters and manuerver around, assumedly via mental directions, before reconfiguring into her human state. With this in mind, her semblance actually changes the state of being.

It actually isn't unreasonable to think that the semblances we know of aren't completely developed yet. Take Blake and Sun's for example. Originially, Blake's shadow clones could only stay in place, and were generated immediately before the hit. But since the Fall of Beacon, they've displayed a level of autonomy and can be summoned before the hit occurs. Sun's clones he initially had to be stationary in order to summon, but since the Character Short, he's been allowed a small degree of movement when summoning only two, such as when he stopped that cart from falling.

For all we know, all of the younger character's semblances haven't fully evolved, and could still evolve further. Ruby's just may be the first one we truly witnessed begin to do so.