Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-73.42.187.52-20141204061848

Zephyrcoil wrote: No one mentions any particular skill like it would or would not be a convenience. Folks rarely do that for abilities in any written work, it's a forethought to not be too meta. It's a ridiculous assumption to expect any particular skill to need adequate foreshadowing unless it's an entire crux for a story, which is why time travel is so messy.

Also it's rather blatant overcomplicated to randomly assume such unneccessarily convoluted relationships for characters, which Adam being physically related to yang and somehow still fitting into blake's life completely is.

Actually, it isn't so much meta as a blatant attempt to not be meta. Just because a world does or does not have an ability does not mean the concept is so foreign it wouldn't come up in conversation, and in fact this kind of conversation has happened in the American cartoon series Avatar, so it is not really without precedent. Besides that, it is one of the few unexplained abilities that we can somewhat tell what it is(do you remember the somewhat long explanations of Yang and Pyrrah's abilities).

As for blatant overcomplex relationships, that is normally true... unless the animators don't want to animate a large amount of characters(which has been shown to happen in this series). to illustrate; consider the food fight and the talents shown in breach. RWBY & JNPR cleared the hall in seconds(though it was full of students who should all be ranging from slightly weaker than the combatants to as powerful as CFVY) this tends to indicate the animators do not wish to create tons of other characters that might just be there once for a story point, which can tend to mean overly complex relationships in those characters that are shown if they intend to make a long(like 10-20 season) show.