User blog comment:VedranTheII/Pretentious Diaries 1: Are my semblances worthy?/@comment-24267097-20150706163555/@comment-24267097-20150710173050

What really irratates me about saying ruby's sembalance is just super speed; is that super speed is supposed to describe what the sembalance does not how it works.

"it's a forcefield," -Jaune. The aura/semblance circles project a visable forcefield that applies force away from the hunter. If Ruby was our point of reference we would see her aura pushing away the wall, however as the ground is our point of reference, through newtons third law and normal forces, then second law, we see ruby using her aura as a gun to give us the impression of super speed. (LiveandSound, thank you, there was no way someone was going to look at my post and have it make sense, )

On the other catagories:

Psychic: this would be fine with a bit of clarification and replacing the example. Glynda's telekinesis could be adaquitely explained though the the use of permiable forcefields, but Pyrrha's comment: "Have you ever felt you were being watched without knowing that someone was there?" (Emrald Forest) only works if Clairavoyance was a capability of aura and by extension its manefestion semblance.

Elemental: beyond the fact that dust covers the need for elemental capabilities quite handily, the only elemental apearing effect that is not based on dust is yang's firey hair outbursts. Furthermore, if we look at Pyrrha's Polarity though the same lense as Glynda's telekinesis, this catagory seems more and more like Euclid's fifth postulate.

Aural: this is a terrible catagory because it two things in it instead of one.

Aural, conversion to aura: The only thing close to this is Yang's semblance, and it is unclear if the impacts applied to her are converted to aura. I feel like this catagory, if it exists in cannon has the greatest potential for being broken which made me wonder if the Frankenstien character was either thematically based on frankenstien, or the different broken capabilities of this catagory were frankenstiened together with the character to form a gary stu.

Aura, adding properties: All shown augmentations of aura are done though dust, so I think it would be unlikely for aura to need more flexibility in how it can be augmented. However as weapons and armor are conduits for aura, having aura add properties is not so farfetched.

Glyphs: as I have been unable to glean the difference between a generic circle of aura and Glyphs I think this is a fine although somewhat broad catagory.