Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161019165813/@comment-4010415-20161021094635

WC-83 wrote: Is it me or is the Atlesian Dust used different from the others? Perhaps it's just standard fire Dust, and the ones floating in Atlas heat the city. If the Dust is different, this might be a plot point. The floating Dust doesn't look red to me, so I doubt it's fire Dust. If anything, it's sort of a pinkish purplish color, which could mean it's actually purple in reality while WoR gave it more of an artistic color that goes better with the color palette. If the Dust really is purple, then it's gravity Dust, which explains why it's floating.

The only places gravity Dust has shown up so far are Ruby's gravity rounds, the vial in Myrtenaster, and the vial in the clip Weiss gave Blake in No Brakes. Two of the three places it has shown up in the show proper, it came from Weiss, an Atlesian.

Oddly enough, gravity Dust was not seen in From Dust Til Dawn, nor in any cases of Dust that the White Fang got their hands on. I wonder why this is... Is it rare or expensive? Is Atlas hogging gravity Dust and only sharing a portion of it with the rest of Remnant? Who knows?

Also, I just thought about how Mr. Schnee wants Weiss to attend Atlas instead of Beacon, and with what WoR Atlas has revealed, it makes even more sense now why Weiss insisted on attending a different Huntsman academy. Mr. Schnee has power there, and residential areas are on its campus. If Weiss attended Atlas Academy, she would still be under her father's control. There would be no escaping him there.