Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20150728223355/@comment-26397825-20150809102505

Yes but then you'd have to ask the question - do they actually turn fears into reality (in which case, you have broken the universe and done a lot of damage at the same time as a lot of peoples fears aren't going to attack them just because they are afraid of it, but rather just go on a rampage through cities and whatnot) or do they just trick the mind into believing that the fears are hapening, in which case it's an illusion and wouldn't do anything anyway. The first is impossible by RWBY standards because, well, making people's fears literally real would be too similar to creating Grimm - all that negative emotion associated with it and stuff - and the second would make the person look crazy and mentally unstable because they'd be the only one seeing it, and their fears wouldn't be able to actually affect the world around them.