Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170410034737/@comment-25936766-20170430222606

JadenLan wrote: 1-a semblance that allows you to enter other people's dreams ...that maybe only works if you're also asleep? ...like a shared dream... that seems like an interesting power...

2-Semblances are, in essence, a personalized power that "evolved" as a defence against Grimm, right?

3-So would a semblance that has nothing to do with fighting or running away from a battle exist? But it also like depends on a person.

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4-What would a person that had never seen or heard or Grimm have for a semblance.

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5-Emerald's hallucinations would work on Grimm right? She grew up in a city... but Grimm...

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6-idk this is probably stupid 1-Nemurin.

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2-What? I mean, the idea that it was "developed", eventually, instead of something possible from the beginning, is something I can understand, though there's the fact that literally any living being, theorically, has a potential Semblance, including plants and animals. Which would logically also include any extinct species from X milenniums ago.

But even if we assume it was developed, that it was developed as a defense against Grimm, is complete spitballing at best, and the idea of it being developed, does not require Grimm, to exist.

3-You really need to define that much better. Many Semblances we've seen have nothing to do with fighting or running away by themselves (what here we would call "Utility"), but can be used offensively or defensively.

Ruby's Speed Boost/Zenbonsakura. Velvet's Movement Mimicry. Pyrrha's Ferromagnetism. By themselves, they have nothing to do with fighting, or running away, but they can be used for both cases.

4-A Semblance. Because seeing/hearing or not seeing/hearing about a Grimm won't inherently affect what their Semblance would be.

Because Grimm have nothing to do with Semblances and vice versa. Except in very, very specific cases like Ren, who saw his entire family and hometown be razed by Grimm, which triggered him enough to give him something that conveniently makes him Invisible to Grimm (either outright or by doing something else).

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5-Assuming Grimm do use their senses, like vision or hearing, then yes, it would work, since Hallucinations are just sensing something that isn't there. Whether it would be easier or harder than if used on a person is another question.

6-And Knowing Is Half The Battle.