Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5047068-20141123201355/@comment-26028321-20150128060156

This has kinda switched fights at this point, but I think the "Haste" thing is dust, and not her Semblance. IIRC any time we see her glyphs they just appear. but when she used it on Blake it had a visible path. and while Weiss has modified her glyphs they've only changed color, but have always bared her symbol (I think it's her symbol. the one on the back of her jacket is slightly different, and I think one is the Schnee symbol and one is hers specifically, and it would make more sense for the one that's her Semblance to be her symbol.)

Either way though I think her Semblance is the most "evolved" of the girls, and her family is the largest dust company so she would have access to rare time dust (assuming it exists). But even amongst both of those I imagine time powers would be pretty strong, so I don't think she could be that capable. So dust fits better there.

As for the fight against WF Liutenent, It's my guess that there wasn't anything special there. I think this was more simply a matter of him adapting to his opponent, he got more used to her speed and movements and was able to dodge, and then he cought her when she displayed an opening (the fights were there to show that the girls aren't invincible). So she made a mistake and he capitalized on it.

I don't think a backlash from such a high powered ability (be it dust or Semblance) is impossible and kinda makes sense actually, the thing that contradicts that I think is that when it wears off of Blake she pretty quickly joins back in the fight (Ruby's next call was Ladybug). There was a brief moment of her sitting still, but it was pretty brief and I would expect the side effect to last longer.

It is possible that it's pretty brief though, in which case Weiss timed her ability wrong or something cause it wore off at a pretty opportune time when she could have just backed off for a second. Which would also be a mistake on her part and show that they have room to grow. I think the effect wore off when she went up to the top Glyph though and was already off by the time she struck down. Which would imply she's pretty amature to not account for the side effects of her own ability, one she should very likely know. And I don't think she's that bad.

It's also possible that the side effects only effect the user (which would suggest this is her semblance at work and not dust) because she is out of the fight after using that ability, but that fight worked in pairs with the other two being in the background.