User blog:TheNewProtagonist/Dust is actually kinda dumb.

Well, not dumb, exactly. Just really confusing in it's concept. The more I think about this stuff, the more questoins I come up with. Questions that I really doubt will get anny sort of satisfying answer.

For example: we know that the effects of Dust change depending on what color it is (generally), red is some kind of energy, light blue is ice, etc. What I want to know is... why? How? How does changing the color of this... rock, mineral, whatever it is, change it's effects? Can you mix dust? Like in it's powdered form? Like, say I got red Dust powder and blue Dust powder and then, I dunno, fire it at something, Do the effects of red and blue overlapp, or do they just make purple and do something completely different?

Would different shades of Dust do different things, too? I mean we know light blue projects ice, but what about sky blue or aqua green or freaking turquoise? Do those colors all do different things, too, or do they have variation on light blue? What if Dust gets liquified? Vaporized? crushed but not powdered? Does it become more or lessvolitile in different states?

See where I'm going with this? If not then you have no idea how much this bugs the everlasting crap outta me. It would be so much easier for Monty (and me) to just call it "magic" and be done with it, but no. It has to be different. It has to be "it's own thing" as Monty stated. At least with magic, you don't have to explain anything because that's what magic IS. A supernatural force that cannot be explained by science, logic or reasoning. By making it "it's own thing", you've turned it into a science and therefore have to explain it's facets. And I doubt the writers ever will.