Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-128.151.150.18-20161013025548/@comment-25936766-20161014011218

ChishioKunrin wrote: Myrtenaster has red (fire), yellow (lightning), white (wind now), dark blue, light blue, and purple (gravity) in it, and Weiss has repeatedly used Myrtenaster to create ice and barrier.

Winter made some kind of foggy white steamy cloud for cover while fighting Qrow, and her sword has a light blue component in it.

Mmmmmm.........this makes things more difficult. We could argue that Light Blue is barrier, but then, how come Winter made a Steam cloud with the Light Blue Dust? Unless the weapon somehow has another Dust type somewhere (or her clothes are Dust, but that feels like giving up).

One could argue that the Barrier then is an Aura technique Neo knows and Weiss learned between Vol.1 and 2, but then, wasn't it the same kind of Barrier present in the arena? Unless the Barrier itself in the colosseum was not Dust in itself, but something else.

My ideas before were 1) that the Cyan could be Barrier, though Merc hasn't really used a barrier so far, and 2) that it could be Steam, which is at least closer to....whatever he used with those air shots.

Based on all this, part of me leans towards the Barrier being an Aura technique, the Barrier of the colosseum being designed to simulate it, and Cyan=Steam.