Talk:Cinder Fall/@comment-37207210-20190220161915/@comment-4010415-20190221170430

It's not that Roman didn't have a Semblance, but rather - as the screenshotted post says - he never discovered his.

@Wolf Literally everyone in Remnant can control Dust if they train hard enough. Cinder has shown a higher level of Dust manipulation simply because she trained enough to be able to do so, to the point where she could ditch her old weapons and use nothing but a dress imbued with Dust to fight.

Weiss uses her glyphs because she hasn't trained enough to control Dust with purely Aura and has chosen to rely on her glyphs because they manipulate motion.

Meanwhile, during the SSSN vs NDGO tournament fight, Dew used the Dust in her spear to generate three tornadoes, which she then seemed to control. The tornadoes surrounded Sage, giving him nowhere to flee, then merged together into one big tornado that threw Sage out of the ring, taking him out of the match.

World of Remnant: Dust states that Dust can be activated by Aura. That's how characters like Cinder, Dew, Amber, and Hazel manipulate the Dust that they use. The problem is that we haven't seen enough characters using purely or mainly Dust, and not enough of them have actually gotten creative with it.

Though, of course, WoR: Dust says that you have to have a certain level of discipline to manipulate Dust without losing control of it, so it's likely that most people these days don't bother to train enough to do that, when they can be like Ilia and use it by pulling a trigger. It also seems that most people don't bother to train their Aura to the level that Ren and Cinder have, considering the two of them have shown the capability to create smaller, condensed shields of Aura, while others haven't done that.

If you add together "Dust is activated by Aura" and "Using Aura requires discipline so as not to lose control", it seems likely that you gain that discipline by training with your Aura to a higher level than most Huntsmen these days are willing to.

TL;DR - Cinder's Semblance is not control over Dust. We haven't seen others control it to her level because advancements in technology have made most people too lazy to train enough to be on her level. Given practice, Ren could probably do it, but he prefers his guns.