Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160528034745/@comment-25936766-20160530133644

VedranTheII wrote:

Semblances are, as far as the show has portrayed them, a mix between a muscle you are unaware of and a profession. You need to both practice with it in order to make it stronger, and you need to experiment and learn how to use it to discover it’s limits.

To summarize, the main problem with your semblance is that, in order for it to work, he needs to both steal aura, then it needs to steal memories, then it needs to not work on people with a locked aura or an undiscovered or unknown semblance, then it needs to not be able to be used better than the one he stole it from... -On regards to the "how": Once someone is marked and if their Aura is unlocked, the user inmediately knows how to use their Semblance...but that's it. It's like you got no legs, then were given legs, and you instantly know how to walk with them, but lack the practice to do much more than a walk. Alternatively: Everyone knows how to use a gun if given one, not everyone knows how to use one right.

In the case of Weiss's Family Semblance, when it comes to the summons she would know how, but lack the skill and domination required (not to mention, she would have to kill something in that 1 minute) to do a complete summon. If she hypothetically killed a Knight, then at best she would be like Vol.2 Weiss: Best she gets is summoning it's sword.

Now what happens once the mark vanishes? She can't use it anymore unless she reapplies it, and she no longer knows how to use it. That bit of information is gone.

-One thing I notice from both of these posts...Stealing. Steal this, Steal that. The word "Steal" is used too much. To imitate something is not stealing. Everyone imitates others throughout their lives, that's one of the main factors that shape our personalities. Are we stealing from each other then?

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Also, it goes against the 'individuality' thing the show pushes so much. Hang on a second. Why should it matter what idea or message the show pushes so much, to fanon things like this? If the show pushes a message, is it automatically demanded from anything made by the fanbase? If a show pushes "Friendship is Awesome!", are the fans incapable of doing something that goes in the other direction?

Just saying, that simply because a show pushes Individuality, it doesn't mean the fans can't make something that follows a lack of Individuality.

On a side note, not really related to this: What would happen if someone's personality did a 180? That something happened, and now their personality is very different from how it was originally? Would the Semblance change? Or even become a completely different Semblance? After all, they are reflections of personality.