Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161003151422/@comment-14909251-20161005040622

58.110.74.227 wrote: Has it been confirmed whether or not Ruby's cloak has dust woven into it? It could explain why her cloak extended when she stabbed the gorilla Grimm while landing on the ground. Her cloak could also have the ability to choose a direction to accelerate in which she used to boost multiple times in the air. The ability to split into three seperate entities could be a combination of her cloak's ability and her semblance or just her ability to fully wield her cloak in general.

The only person that we know that has clothes that have dust woven into it is Cinder as her clothing lights up when she uses her glass attacks. She also has the ability to manipulate the form it takes like swords, bow and arrows, and projectiles.

Since Ruby's cloak emits rose petals on the cloak and not from her body i just thought they were similar in the way they activate. There would be nothing unprecedented about being able to have clothing affected by her Semblance. When Blake or Flynt create copies they replicate clothing and weapons rather than just physical form. I presume Qrow doesn't lose his clothing when turning into a crow. It is known that Dust and weapons can interact with Aura, so it only stands to reason that Semblance can affect the user's clothing as well as the user's physical form. The idea that Ruby's Semblance is not really speed was raised above and I suggested that it could be her speed is a function of a transformation that she had not yet fully manifested in the previous Volumes.