Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-119.192.126.9-20140220045714/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140220085806

1) They weren't really anything special, just extensions of their normal abilities and weapons. The cross clip was merely a different variant on ammunition,  Yang's "meteor drop" of sorts was simply a mix of her semblance, her shotguns and likely the fact that the dance floor wasn't exactly the toughest thing to destroy. As for Weiss, dust is dust. Anyone who uses glyphs can do some exceptional stuff, it's not an awe-striking ability, just an extension of the fact that she has a nigh infinite amount of endlessly varying dust at her disposal thanks to her family's company. Blake doesn't need, nor necessarily have anything that is as powerful as those attacks, she has the most diversity in potential fighting styles, she has arguably the most overpowered semblance since once she masters it it could potentially render her borderline untouchable and, unlike her teammates she doesn't fill the role of spike damage dealer.

2) The allusion to Beauty and the Beast, for Blake is all-but confirmed. From the candlebra, to the lyrics in Red Like Roses to the fact that her name may even reference the protagonist of the tale. There is no mention of Adam possibly relating to the tale save for the fact that he is associated with Blake and that there used to be a widely accepted headcanon that Adam was a bull-or similar type of- faunus. Whilst I do agree that the Blake may be the Beauty AND the Beast, I have my doubts that she is literally a beast. It's more likely just referring to her dark past combined with the fact that Blake is seemingly preventing herself from expressing her hatred for discrimination as much as she'd like (save for when she is with friends whom I doubt Blake would willingly hurt).

3) I'm still firmly in the camp that that line is just referencing how the White Fang will take by force what they couldn't by diplomacy. Ignoring the fact that it makes more sense (that may be subjective), there is also the fact that the lyrics reference a group, unless there are several people like Blake who, according to this theory have Grimm origins, then I don't see how the lyrics could be referencing Blake since Jekyll and Hyde don't share the same morals, outlook or motivation.

4) Again, I don't think there's anything to do with anything supernatural or the like. The Jekyll/Hyde ideology is the same as the Beauty/Beast one in my opinion. We haven't seen every side of Blake yet, perhaps she does have a desire to make humans pay for their social crimes against te faunus, perhaps she does have an intrinsically evil part of her personality, but I don't see her "Hyde" or her "Beast" being an actual, physically manifested part of herself.

5) That's a bit of a stretch. You never see the arms of half the characters in the show, doesn't mean that they have the Mark of Ares and can transform into the God of War. Besides Blake has a reason to cover her arm, the ribbon of Gambol Shroud and her left arm DOES uncover whilst she is using her weapon's kusarigama form. If Ruby or Yang noticed any markings they'd probably ask her about it. And besides Blake is way too careful to let such a thing slip in combat. If she wanted to hide her arm she'd do a better job of it.

That being said, there was an interesting theory going around that Adam may be a Grimm Faunus... Based on nothing in particular but it was a neat idea and interesting way to explain his allegiance to Blake/the WF, his rediculous power and the whole glowing red mask/body thing.