Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24534644-20170213012304/@comment-24534644-20170329032509

To clarify, I'm historically not an advocate of any Semblance that just straight up allows a person to manipulate an element in any way. And being able to control Dust in its entirety, even if it's just concentrating it down, is like all my angers combined.

Although if the ability isn't actually controlling the Dust, then the new issue arises. You're advertising the Semblance as being able to control Dust itself in a very specific way, when in actuality the power is something completely different, and it's just being applied for the purpose of manipulating Dust clouds. In which case, it IS him having psychic abilities that he, for some odd reason, chooses only to apply to Dust. The question is why. If he can make psychic barriers, why is he only using them to control how tightly Dust is concentrated in a given area?

This is like if my Semblance from before had been described as "being able to shoot from any angle". The question is how is my guy doing that (I.e. by teleporting them with miniature wormholes), and THEN the question becomes "if that's his actual Semblance, then why is the Semblance described the way it is, and why is he only using his Semblance for that one particular purpose?" See the issue?