Talk:Myrtenaster/@comment-25936766-20170713233835/@comment-25936766-20170714005004

Occam's Razor: The theory that depends on the less number of hypothetical premises, is more likely to be true.

We do not know that there is such thing as Lava Dust, even if Cinder's clothes glowed orange. So saying that what she used was "Lava Dust", requires Lava Dust to be true.

We could easily assume that, given Maidens were not a thing yet, it was just skilled use of Fire Dust, which is known to exist, and we know of Cinder's skill at using Dust. This idea depends on 2 things that are already known to be.

Even the color can be explained Doylistically: Cinder's Dress is red. If it glowed red, it would be hard to see, like if Blake had Black Aura, or Weiss had White Aura. It's hard to see Red within Red.

Meanwhile, orange was close enough to Red, and would've been easier to see as well.