Talk:Velvet Scarlatina/@comment-10390252-20160207203932

My guess is that Velvet's semblance/weapon is very aura-intensive. You will recall from the WoR about Dust that it was noted that intensively using aura/semblance-based attacks burns you out fairly quickly. So, what Coco meant in Breach was that Velvet had to choose her moment or waste her energy. Coco also implied that it takes a long time for her to build up that energy (dust reserves?).

Basically, she's a 'Death Blossom', an incredibly powerful fighter who can lay waste to a large number of average or even one or two super-powered foes in a very, very short period of time. However, once she's burned through her aura and the dust in her box, she's pretty much dead in the water and waiting for the first mook with a shiv to take her out.

Her non-super attack is probably something not dissimilar to Coco's handbag-fu, only using her dust container instead.

In RPGs characters like this have to be managed and protected very, very carefully by the rest ot their party. Yes, they can get them out of serious pickles against the final Boss but they're also very vulnerable outside of that one climactic battle.