Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26397825-20170730020549/@comment-4010415-20170730053358

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

1. However, the Schnee Glyphs already have the ability to manipulate motion, to push and pull things, even without Gravity Dust. Gravity Dust would, at most, only amplify that ability.

2. For example, when she prevented Ironwood from opening the door, one could say she was just pushing it back. Try to open a door while someone is pushing it in the other direction. If that someone is applying more force than you, that door won't open. Gravity's not needed, just a contrary force.

3. About the "using heat from Dust for thermal lift" part, I don't recall Reese, say, pulling out the Wind Dust in her board and replacing it with the other Dust. She just inserted the latter in IIRC. So, I thought she was still using the Wind Dust for movement, not (just) the other Dust. 1. It seems like the regular non-Dust white glyphs push, while the black gravity Dust glyphs can pull, as I said above. White glyphs push things upward or in a direction toward their rim, but I'm not sure if we've ever seen white glyphs actually pull something toward or through them. Meanwhile, black glyphs have shown the capability of pulling things toward or through them - for example, pulling Ruby back on the slingshot in Players and Pieces, as well as the black glyph that pulled Bolin through it and shot him through the other side of it when he snuck up behind Ruby.

2. The glyph was actually pulling on the door, indicated by Ironwood trying and failing to pull the door open. If he was trying to push the door open, we would have seen him lean forward at least a little. Instead, his posture was leaned more backward and his arm made subtle pulling motions as he wiggled the door in its frame. So, like I said, I have no idea why the hell he started slamming against the door. That seemed really dumb.

3. Agreed, that's definitely possible.