Thread:PisceanWaterbender/@comment-26397825-20170726023133/@comment-4010415-20170730033823

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

1. But, for starters, it's the kind of thing that requires an extreme amount of energy to even be noticeable. You don't feel crushed down by light everytime you turn on a lightbulb or even a dozen, after all.

2. Now, if we take Hardlight as "literally-solid light", then it could excuse the Barriers, and partially explain "solid holograms"....but wouldn't really explain the Cyan lines on the train. 1. Well, it's Dust, not a machine that they have to hook up to an absurdly strong power source. Besides that, entertainment media tends to ignore the idea of requiring "an extreme amount of energy", as far as I've noticed.

2. True, true. Hard light (btw, TVTropes says hard light is when light has actual substance) could explain the barriers and Velvet's weapons and... maybe sorta kinda Weiss' lasers (they weren't shown to be hot or have any cutting ability, so TVTropes' mention of "Laser Cutter" doesn't align with it), but it wouldn't explain Mistral's train.