Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-29781768-20180104044655/@comment-96.244.248.70-20180314003923

My bet for Neo's "teleporting" is that is is like when Blake uses her clones for double jumps, Neo is using her semblance to move quickly but it is a by product and not the main thing.

Since her semblance is those physical illusions I bet that teleportation effect is part smokescreen to hide her movements- it was a giant flash of light- and partly a projection of hers to help carry her away faster.

so while the flash and lingering image distracted Raven, Neo was quietly pushed by her semblance as she made a get away. This would also explain how she and roman got to that bullhead so quickly, she make a distraction for team RWBY then  expidited her and roman's trip to the vehicle while hidden by her illusion.

Essentially I see her using her projections like stepping stones/ conveyor belts for brief moments.

Getting back to Cinder, the mundane dust manipulation sounds like a good fit- for a reasonable semblance and for her character, especially since she seems to use it in combination with dust or her maiden powers to shape it into glass objects for attacts, weapons or equipment (her outfit to break into the CTV tower seemed to have armor panels made of black glass, and she removed it and was in a dress as a quick change to blend in at the dance). I bet a lot of her moves not only use the dust in her cloths but actual dust mixed with the captial D kind so she can pull off things like setting up those fire bombs in the first episode, or else she just channels fire dust while manipulaing the dust on the ground to creat dust explosions.