User blog:ChishioKunrin/Dust Speculation and Whatnot

While rewatching Volume 2, something finally clicked, and I decided, rather than only bringing up the idea that popped into my head, why not write another blog all about what we know and what we speculate about Dust. So, here it is.

I'm going to skip over stuff like crystal vs powder and weaving it into clothes because that stuff has been done to death, and really, I'm not sure there's anything else we could figure out from the crystal vs powder discussion. We also don't know anywhere near enough about fusing Dust with oneself to really have much of a discussion, aside from listing all the questions we have about it.

What color does what?
This has also been extensively discussed, but we still don't know what all the colors do. As of volume 2, we have now seen newer examples of Dust.

As always, I will reiterate my stance that we probably should not trust the White Trailer when it comes to determining what Dust does, as the White Trailer seems to have been a prototype run from before Monty had a concrete idea for Dust.

1108_Players_and_Pieces_23608.png colors are there?
World of Remnant: Dust revealed to us that the four naturally-occurring colors are red, blue, yellow, and green. It also told us that the other colors are achieved by combining the naturally-occurring colors of Dust, either naturally or artificially. These new colors have new effects.
 * Red
 * Blue
 * Yellow
 * Green
 * Cyan
 * White
 * Purple (one of the slots in Myrtenaster)
 * Possibly two shades of orange?

As of right now, we do not know the process through which Dust is combined.

So, what colors do what?
The only examples that have been clearly presented to us are the following: Just for the sake of people who have not seen my presentation on red, blue, and yellow being fire, ice, and lightning, I'll quickly explain. In "The Shining Beacon," we saw red, blue, and yellow powdered Dust fill the air, and when Ruby sneezed on it, it resulted in a fiery explosion with ice crystals and volts of electricity.
 * Red is fire
 * Blue (not cyan) is ice
 * Yellow is lightning
 * Green, as we have been told by the artist behind WoR: Dust, is wind

Dust's use with Semblance
It has been confirmed that Dust can be used with Semblance, and it seems that the way Dust and Semblance are used together varies from Semblance to Semblance. Seeing Blake use Dust with her Semblance was confirmation enough of all of this.