Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26073173-20170526204239/@comment-28288412-20170526210413

BossM98 wrote: 1. I think his semblance was Manipiulation.

2. This would explain how he was able to convince a crowd of white fang recruits to join him, the worst that humanity had to offer, within moments.

3. It also goes to show that two white fang members actually called him "the boss" and brought him Ruby to please him.

4. The White Fang hate humans so why would they work with Torchwick so dilligently? It's because of his Semblance.

5. It makes perfect sense too as a semblance can reflect ones personality or being, Roman is a fast talking manipulator who used others to do his dirty work. So what do you guys think? Does it have merit, does it not? Lemme know! 1. Not the only one I've heard reckon this, but as for why...

2. He didn't convince them to join him, Cinder forced the leader of their section to work for her through intimidation using newly gained Maiden powers and bribery as shown in the flashback episode. Roman was just the one appointed in charge of them to achieve Cinder's goals, Cinder likely paying him initially and Roman not backing out also out of fear.

3. They call him boss because Cinder made him the boss of them, or Cinder made Adam make them accept him as boss. Either way. Ruby wasn't brought to please him either, just to let him deal with what happens to tbe intruder. They had no idea if Roman had ever seen Ruby before.

4. No. It's because of (refer to point 2).

5. It could be possible, but Roman hasn't shown anything that particularly demonstrates above average manipulation skills.

As for what I think Roman's semblance is, to shamelessly copy myself from when I answered the same question on Reddit:

"I like to headcanon that it's some form of ability that allows him to quickly adapt to and use technology for the first time.

Now the first ship from the first episode wouldn't really need this explanation as he could've had practiced and learned how to drive the vehicle before, despite his background of living on the streets (I believe that was confirmed somewhere).

The next main example of the prototype Atlesian Paladin is a bit more iffy though. Yes he could have had some practice, but unless they included an instruction manual in them this is very new technology that Roman manages to use pretty easily. And if you ask about the rest of the WF using in them on the train, my headcanon would be Roman giving them the basic run down of how to use it in the most condescending with a little bit of speciest way.

That not enough? How about Roman apparently knowing after messing about with a few buttons for fun for a few seconds how to control a giant Atlesian Airship that one would presume is the first time he's ever been behind the wheel of one... by himself. How many people crewed the deck of the other ones? I think more than two, even with my poor memory I would say that is a safe assumption. But Roman by himself apparently knows how to turn one of these things around and fire it's main weapon twice before one of the other fully manned Airships were able to realise and respond.

So yeah, I headcanon his semblance is the ability to quickly adapt to new technology and know how to use it and do so effectively almost immediately after starting to use it."