Talk:Taiyang Xiao Long/@comment-38431374-20190205171601

Just popping in with a minor theory. It's my belief that we've already seen Taiyang's semblance at play, and personally I believe that it's Spacial Manipulation. I want to cite the episode Field Trip, with Weiss's reaction to how Zwei had gotten to them. While at the time it just seemed like a quirky anime-inspired thing, given that Weiss was stunned by it, it's easy to see that this isn't a natural thing that occurs. Since we know that Taiyang sent him, it's safe to assume that Taiyang was the one who packaged him up as well, and probably gave him a good amount of space in there with food enough for the amount of time that he'd be carried around by the post office.

Given that spacial manipulation is also a great combat ability that demands someone focus on something outside of their own senses and thinking outside of the box, it also gives a tie to his fighting style and the lessons that he taught Yang, both in the past and what we saw in later seasons. It could also have been something that had drawn him to Raven initially, as it'd mean that they had similar semblances and thus a connection through that.