Thread:Darkcloud1111/@comment-15108745-20130826011959/@comment-9090085-20130826035557

@Clamity Y

Sorry, you're right, a master Ren is not. But he does make a good "imitation" for our appetizer.

Darkcloud1111 wrote: I'm not saying Dust=Magic, but that Dust is like magic. Dust is pretty much "Elemental powers in a bottle." With it, you can make fiery explosions, call down a hail storm, trap someone in ice, or sneeze and make a crater in the front of a school. You know what else is a "fiery explosion"? Gunpowder. Is it really so hard to consider that the "technology" of this world is based around "magic"? Whether that "magic" is Mana or Chi? or both or nether? don't get me wrong we have seen "magical" effects of Dust, but saying that is the only thing Dust is used for is incredibly arrogant: why would it be sold in corner stores if it has such a limited application?

You ever see Broken Blade? Everyone in that world has the "magical" power to... move quartz. This has many applications, from moving giant Mecha called "Golems", to compressing air to fire bullets, to... running a coffee machine. Why couldn't Dust have similar mundane uses, to the point where it's used everywhere?

Darkcloud1111 wrote: Jaune's and Pyrrha's weapons glow along with them, obviously reacting to their Aura ... And how does that automatically rule out anyone else's weapons from not making use of Aura?

More to the point, how does one use Dust without a weapon, if most people use it through "technology" (even Weiss does!)? I would assume with their Aura. Auras could shape Dust into "spells" using the energy in the Dust. This is just my feelings, but Aura and Dust are likely intertwined in battle, not simply one or the other.