Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24278127-20131211040442/@comment-24278127-20131211055137

Darkcloud1111 wrote: Going from just a series perspective, all Pyrrha mentions on Semblance is that she has magnitism, Ruby has speed, and Weiss has her Glyphs. It is never said that everyone has a special Semblance that isn't anything like anyone else's.

It is much more likely that there are certain classes of Semblance, like a group of people that have similar Semblances, but each person has certain differences. For example even though Cinder, Glynda, and Weiss all use Glyphs, each one of their Glyphs appear to be different colors. This could mean that their powers operate different, but they come from the same source. Also notice that while Cinder and Weiss only have the Dust they use glow, when Glynda goes into battle, there is a point when her entire body glows. And also all three have different style Glyphs when you take a good look at them closely (Glynda has flat circles, Cinder has cylinders, and Weiss' is also a flat circle, but snowflake shapes appear in place of Glynda's more mystical looking circles). This could mean that despite the wide range of Dust abilities, only certain Glyph users can manipulate Dust in certain ways. Cinder is good with explosions, Weiss is good with Attract-Repel platforms, and Glynda is just all around good with awesomeness. Exactly. All Pyyrha has mentioned is that she herself specifically has magnitism. Yet the Wiki seems to say that the semblances are already decided for each and every character. I would like to hear an editor's opinion on this. It should say on each characters description, except Pyyrha of course, that their semblances are still underquestion or not specifically defined yet; although it does seem that Pyyrha states Ruby's and Weiss' semblances right then and there; I hope not. There many many ideas for semblances for every character. And I'd hate for the semblances of the main cast to be generic like "super speed" or glyphs.

If there are different classes within the semblances, then I'm expecting Monty to explain how each glyph's "shape" as it were, differently influences the effects of the magic...Though its probably asking for a bit much. I did indeed notice that each "mage" had a different style of magic when it came down to it. At time however, I imagined that it may have just been them casting different spells. If its according to semblance, then we definitely need some clarification from Monty.

See, what I really want to hear is that all of the semblances except for Pyyrha's is not defined yet. And that there is a whole realm of ideas for each character that are still waiting in Monty's head to be shown to us.

Every character, unique in their own way, yet broad in their applications of fighting has still some things yet to be discovered. I want to know that there is still more about the way these characters fight that I can learn alongside who they are plot-wise and character-wise.