Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4010415-20140421154105/@comment-3257939-20140427034409

Yep, it's on the DVD commentary. They said "It's actually a rainbow" and disclaimed the idea of the crescent moons.

This is quite a good topic to talk about... if we had more info.

The problem with the symbols is that they can mean a lot of things. For example:

Ruby's symbol: She shares her symbol with Summer Rose and the white cloak, who is presumably her, also creates rose petals from her cape.

Weiss' symbol: It's the same symbol of the Schnee Dust Company, it's related to her family and that's all. It's not safe to assume that her glyphs are a reflection of her soul or things like that since it's not a single one. Weiss has multiple versions of Glyphs that can change from color to shape. During her fight in the White Trailer, she created a large glyph and if you look closely to it, you can notice some sort of mechanism that is scanning the floor and then the floor exploded like if she put a trap on it. There is another version like the air step which she uses as her landing strategy.

Jaune's symbol: He had no idea what aura is and has no semblance for the moment so it's clearly that his symbol is inherted from his family. Yet, his symbol is a rainbow and if you mix the colors of a rainbow: you get white which is also Jaune's aura color.

Then, what about the rest? Why not everyone has a symbol? Team CRDL has no symbols... neither semblances.

This made me believe that semblances are inherted. If Summer is Ruby's mother and her semblance causes rose petals to come off her cape just like Ruby, then, the semblances are legacies. Weiss' and Jaune's symbols are inherted from their families but they are also related to their abilities. I believe that when a person grows strong enough to find their semblances, they create a symbol as a result just like Cinder's symbol is implanted on her skin and Weiss' is similar to the form of her glyphs.