Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190126081959/@comment-24032889-20190131233716

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: RaijinRising wrote:

2) Neo's Semblance changes materials.......She may break the fundamental law of our universe that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but 1) as Monty would say, Remnant is not our universe and 2) Rule of Cool. 2) Ok, but that means she literally can turn X into Y, transform it into something that is completely different inside and outside, in volume and mechanisms and everything. Without fail.

It doesn't necesarily defy that law of nature in the sense of "matter can only be blah blah" because it's transforming (though that assumes they have the same mass and all, which is doubtful). But:

1> It's still pretty absurd to do it so flawlessly.

2> It's not illusions, so we were lied to outright, since we were outright told her deal was Ilusions (in contrast to Emerald's Hallucinations). They're physical illusions. It wasn't wrong for the CRWBY to call them illusions because she uses them in an illusory sense, and they break when hit (hard enough, because Neo "got stronger" as of V6 E5). I'm sure if someone shot a cannon at the Atlas ship that it would revert to a Mistral ship.

Was it misleading? Well... not really. There is still a "default state" and an "illusory state" that will break apart and revert to the "default state". They're physical illusions, but Neo completely changes what is being masked to what she masks it with.

This is what we have written for Neo on the Semblance page: "Neopolitan's Semblance allows her to create "physical illusions that can be seen by everyone".[20] These illusions are highly convincing and shatter like glass when she dispels them or someone breaks them."

None of that is wrong. We still have the same understanding of it, but we have a further understanding of what happens with the "default state" thanks to the airships. When Neo changes clothes, it wasn't like she was constantly wearing two full sets of clothing, so this makes sense. The clothes just morph into the illusory set and revert to the default set when she uses her Semblance.