Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.146.149.161-20150813074512/@comment-14909251-20150830220634

LiveandSound wrote: No, she instead did the "Dust on the blade" thing, but I consider that not-evidence that she uses Dust without her Semblance. For all we know, being capable of focusing the Dust on the blade to do X may well be a function of Myrtenaster itself, and not something that involves her input beyond press a button. Or a trigger, like Myrtenaster has.

It's like a gun. You press the trigger and the gun does the rest, unlike before where one had to ignite the powder by themselves if they wanted to fire a single bullet. Considering Weiss's dad is the CEO of the SDC, most important Dust-working company in the 4 Kingdoms, it wouldn't be unexpected.

In the White Trailer, and when Ruby ruined her chance of roasting a Beowulf, that's what she did, the Dust focused on the blade and it gained a colorful glow before she slashed or whatever. But in all those instances, what she did, was different from what she normally does with her Semblance.

In the forest scene for example, she failed the slash, and the slash released the wave of fire, instead of being more simplistic and just making the wave of fire by herself with no need for a slash. In the W-Trailer she did something similar with Ice by thrusting the rapier on the ground.

Point: Weiss doesn't know how to use Aura to use Dust. She either uses her Glyphs to send Dust flying in X direction or make X effect, or she uses Myrtenaster to do a more physical Dust-based attack with no Glyph required. In the W-trailer when she sent the Knight flying she used Glyphs, but when the Dust was focused on the blade, she didn't. Have we even seen a character use Dust without the assistance of a Semblance or weapon? Only possible example is Cinder, but she seems to be the exception rather than the rule.