Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-93.172.97.165-20161023190354/@comment-25936766-20161025143956

Kaptainbradukk wrote:

Grimmdamnit, I hate explaining time-based powers, that's incredibly messy. Hope it's clearer. And again, that's just my little theory. Well, it wasn't. Your idea of how time would "work" in this case makes no sense, at all, and rather defies the more conventional ways time works in fiction. Time flows, it does not "stack", and the way you "explain" it doesn't really make the idea make sense.

The closest is that Ozpin supposedly stores (not stacks) time in his cane. But that can be interpreted differently: That, basically, he's making the cane age in his place. And as proven by Jaune's decades-old family sword, even old weapons can remain effective for a damn long time. But that's it.

And some of your arguments can be confronted with Occam's Razor:

1-How did Ozpin live for 80+ years? Simple: Aura. Aura doesn't heal, but rather improves the body's natural recovery so it heals faster. With a powerful-enough Aura, this means one would also age more slowly, or more precisely, their body would decay over time more slowly. As we age, we get weaker, but Aura slows it down, preserving youth for longer. And, we know from the WoR that Aura can make one "more than just a man", while showing Ozpin.

2-How did he sped up when fighting Cinder? Not by spending any stacked time or anything. He simply used Time Dilatation, his power if not Semblance. If you make things move slower in time around you, to others it's the same as you moving faster.