Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-16600673-20190106211017

So I have a little theory about the cane. Note, this theory does encroach on spoiler territory for both Season 5 and 6, specifically episode 12 of the former and episodes 7 and 8 of the latter. I haven't figured out how to make a spoilers tab yet, but since the episodes are already out for free on Rooster Teeth's website I'll take a chance. For those who've watched to the end of Volume 5, remember the fight between Ozpin and Hazel? In a part of that fight (Episode 12) Ozpin repeatedly thrusted the his cane at Hazel at a speed Oscar's arm would have definitely not been able to move at. One could make the argument of Ozpin's superior reflexes making it possible, but at least 16 stabs in 2 seconds? No, such a thing is very likely not possible for Oscar's body to capable of. Unless Oscar' was training as a toddler to stab a pitchfork repeatedly into a bale of hay day-in and day-out, he shouldn't be capable of any kinds of reflexes to that degree, possession or no possession.

This leads me into Volume 6 territory, starting in Episode 7 during the fight between the Crocodile Faunus bandit (name Tock) and her lackeys, and the Grimm Reaper. Before the fight, Tock had an alarm clock, and upon twisting its minute hand and pressing a button on it she was capable of moving at such inhuman speeds that even the Grimm Reaper wasn't capable of keeping up with. Around the end of the next episode, we learn that Maria (being the former Grimm Reaper) has a semblance that allows her superior reflexes to such a degree that she might be comparable to a Jedi from Star Wars. Back in her youth, in her Grimm Reaper days, her reflexes were understandably far more high-tuned...so Tock being able to keep up with the Grimm Reaper in her prime makes the abilities of the alarm clock that much more apparent.

I'm gonna skip the baby questions most people ask to needlessly add words to their topic, and just get to the point. Ozpin's cane is said to be able to "store time", as sad in the Volume 3 Commentaries. The Shark Faunus' alarm clock is noticably capable of storing time as well. Thus, I have a theory that the alarm clock and Ozpin's cane are related in this way, and thus Ozpin's cane is capable of manipulating time for it user (or at least manipulating how the user perceives time, both physically and mentally). 