Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160205040608/@comment-26397825-20160215114134

I'll start from the top:

1. Well, he can...but Dust infusion in the body is an ancient technique. It's ages old. They already know all about it. Ironwood and the WoR video said so when Ruby mentioned Cinder having Dust in her clothes and the WoR talked about Dust. In fact, clothing infused with Dust is newer than infusing your own body with Dust.

Basically, it's old news. Doesn't make him special, and there's nothing more to be gained from experimentation. Infuse away.

2. Ingesting Dust...well, we haven't seen what Dust does to people when it enters the body other than making them sneeze, but I suppose it'd just be a lump in their stomach that doesn't break down. Instead it has to be used. But if you've got it literally infused into his skin, you wouldn't need to do this. I'm fairly certain anyone with sufficient skill could simply grab a crystal and recharge a Dust tattoo or infusion, so there's no need to eat them. Just absorb them into your tattoos.

3. Dust is meant to enhance semblances; we were told this. It's an enhancement device, not something which semblances are purely based around. Also, Dust users are able to manipulate and move Dust around and manipulate and control it's creation at will when they activate it, and can make Dust explode without physical contact. Glynda sends a Dust crystal into the sky in the very first episode and makes it hail on the bullhead without touching it.

You can be a pure mage type without having terrible stuff happen to them, you know. Dust tattoos are a thing, as are Dust clothes, and the only thing you can't do with Dust that you want his semblnace to do is deactivate it; but then, it's pure energy creating an elemental effect. How do you negate the elements? It would require a series of different abilities for the semblance to be able to counteract every type of Dust, which gives it too many different abilities. Only Schnee's get super special glyphs with multiple abilites, I'm afraid.