Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-173.20.10.245-20131101064024/@comment-3146930-20140728022352

Torchwick-Forever wrote: Darkcloud1111 wrote: I don't think people can e turned into animals. Well, we didn't get much world building for RWBY so we don't really know what's possible and what isn't. It might not apply in the world WE live in, but the RWBY Universe has dust, and creatures of Grimm, and crazy semblences and auras and pretty much everything we might classify as magic. We don't have any of that stuff, so what we know to be true in OUR WORLD doesn't really apply anymore.

But even the world of RWBY has its own set of rules that it must follow. Aura is like a full body shield that protects the user and can make weapons and such stronger. Dust is an energy propellant like gunpowder or fuel, and Semblance is like a special ability that allows you to manipulate certain laws of physics (speed, magnetism, whatever Glyphs are). I could maybe see someone arguing that someone could have a Semblance to turn people into animals, but that seems like a very OP Semblance and doesn't seem to fit in with the show. On the technology side of things, they have robots, holograms, and flying air ships, but I don't know if they have technology advanced enough to completely change a person's species.