Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161003151422/@comment-26397825-20161005010950

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

58.110.74.227 wrote:  Her cloak could also have the ability to choose a direction to accelerate in which she used to boost multiple times in the air. ......And how is that even possible?

She has a magic cloak. Just as there are magic people and magic abilities, so too are there magic artifacts. Ruby somehow got her hands on one as a young girl, and no one knew what it was. It will only be in the 5th Volume when we discover the mystical abilities of this article of clothing.

Or, you know, Ruby infuses her aura with her cloak subconsciously when she's fighting, and the extended cloak was actually just petals coalescing into cloak form without her realising, as she uses the cloak to create a larger tailwind and therefore by extending the cloak she can extend or increase the tailwind she creates when she uses her semblance. Her petals are the exact colour of the cloak, after all, and her cloak does seem to leak petals instead of them only coming from her when she's using her semblance.

Or...the animators/writers thought it would look cool. Shrug