Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20131018004029/@comment-23876095-20131018113601

Zolnir wrote:

We now look at the White Trailer. Weiss has demonstrated that through her Glyphs, she is able to manipulate different types of Dusts and recreate different kinds of attacks.

On the other hand, we can assume that without Dust, Weiss' Semblance is useless. I deduce that Weiss' Semblance must involve Dust or it would be completely useless.

This may be a reason why her weapon was so unique, and that she always carries around Dust reserves with her. This may also certainly be a strong reason why she may be shunned by her family (if that is indeed the case). Weiss' Semblance is near omnipotent if she has all kinds of Dusts with her (since she can recreate any effects), but without Dust it could do nothing at all.

In short, Weiss is a Jack in All Trades with limited ammo. Her character development would probably be focused at this area, where she ran out of Dust and feels useless and inferior to her peers. I think how it goes is that she uses a combination of both dust and semblance. Her semblance seems to only create her regular white glyphs that can only be used for air steps while she uses dust to augment them, giving them new colors and properties.