Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26064215-20150127201253/@comment-26319455-20150417194841

73.Anon.52 wrote:

how would your semblance normally work?

I'm talking like you open a vial of earth dust and fire dust and channel some of it using your semblance to fortify your teammates resolve and help them fight passionately, or you notice a companion is being sloth and apathetic during an assignment and channel lightning and fire dust to excite them and make them passionately pursue the project, or you feel someone being stubborn and confrontational and use water and wind dust to calm and soothe their attitude, allowing you to end conflict without confrontation/fighting... Hmm...makes sense.

Normally, I imagine it would work like...well, I can feel what others are feeling (in broad strokes, without literally reading their thoughs) and feel it as if I'm experiencing the exact same emotions (the logical extreme of empathy, basically). I can then reach out with my aura to change what they're feeling--and this too, I would feel, meaning if I did try to manipulate people to cause fear, etc., it would take resolve on my part to avoid taking the brunt of my own manipulation.

Anhow, I appreciate the idea, but I think I'd say that my semblance is simply not able to be augmented by dust. I don't really like the extremes that could lead to.