Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27121579-20160104011025/@comment-27541008-20160104014256

From what I have seen in the latest episode of RWBY VOL 3; Ep 7 I am lead to think that Cinder's natural semblance is her glass semblance. This was shown in her fight with the Fall Maiden and it shows that her twin blades and bow and arrow actually were her weapon before she did something to it either destroying it and using her glass semblance to recreate it augmented with the half of the Fall Maidens powers, or it was abosrbed into her allowing her to carry it everywhere(As seen in RWBY VOL 2: Ep 7). So looking back at the recent episoe(RWBY VOL 3: Ep 7) I think that the aspect of the Maiden powers Cinder stole was one where she could deflect dust infused bullets with ease, as well as her latent pyrokinesis as displayed in RWBY VOL 1 and 2. As for the means of her "stealing" the Maidens powers is a complicated one. It's either a type of Grimm that specifically seals the powers of a Maiden given the Maiden's reaction to seeing the bug. Or it was a specifically created organism to steal the powers of a Maiden( My reasoning for this is human fear and jealousy as seen in the story of RWBY if humans could grow to hate Faunus why not those who are more powerful then they are by far?). Either way these are the two ideas that come to my mind for now all I can say is that the bug thing, the seal on the back of Cinders hand, Cinders emblem on her back, and the reaction of the Fall Maiden(which proves she knew what was about to happen to her) is all interconnected.