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SpiritedDreaming wrote: I don't know if this actually counts as a blade beam, or if it's just a hit effect, but this is the moment against the Nevermore they're talking about.

She also performed one on the Beowolves in Mountain Glenn.

Against Roman, she did another hit effect type in Volume 1:



Then the multislash attack when she was hasted by Weiss in Painting the Town...:



This is the only actual aura slash we've seen her do that is very definitively not a hit effect, which Qrow also performed. Regarding the first 3 examples.....there's something of note:

About almost-all the time, when someone makes a slash, they make a colored slash trail. Like you would see in a videogame. The interesting thing, though, is that said color slash, is not necesarily in the color of their Aura.

Ren, for example, makes green slashes when he slices with his blades, but his Aura is not green. Now, one could excuse this as "his blades are green...", but...

For comparison, Blake is about the inverse: Her blade(s) are Black, but the slashes they leave, every single one, is purple, like her Aura.

There's also Adam's, but his blade is completely red. Red Dust, that is. His non-Fire slashes are the same color as the blade, IIRC.

...It's kind of inconsistent. It could be how they look when the Dust, if they have, is not activated, which explains Adam and maybe Ren, but not Blake's non-Blade Beam slashes, whose blades are not purple like Gravity Dust, yet still make the purple slash regardless.

If, instead, it's like their Aura, it explains Blake and maybe Adam, but not Ren's green slashes, since his Aura is more pink.

.....So in total...those first 3 examples you have there, it could've been just a normal slash that looked Purple-colored just because, instead of something related to the Blade Beams.

And in the 4th example with the multislash...given that it hit the missiles at range, it could've been an actual Blade Beam(s).