Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160103163552/@comment-26872876-20160107010546

73.Anon.52 wrote:

Grimmstride wrote:

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: When it comes to Pyrrha knowing if Mercury's legs are metal, it is important to remember that she tries to use her power in a very slight manner during fights to avoid detection. Unless we assume Pyrrha automatically knows when something is metal, we have no reason to think Pyrrha is aware of Mercury's legs being prosthetic. She was specifically manipulating his boots and most directly the weapons attached to his boots, which appear to be separate. If her ability does not allow her to detect metal, then it is quite probably the case that she is clueless.

I think the hardest part is identifying how she can tell what is or is not metal. The one scene I always go back to is the food fight. She slaps the ground and picks up all the metal near her. Even metal she isn't looking at. So to me, it seems like detecting metal should be rather easy.

I think the larger question is does she associate it with mechanical legs as well as HOW much of the leg is really a metal she can control. It would be really easy to write it off as, Pyrrha just assumed the metal was part of his weapon that he conceals. As DA said, that was while using brute force... something she rarely does in real fights in an effort to camouflage her semblance. Using her power as tightly controlled as she normally does, she likely doesn't gain that kind of peripheral effect.

That's essentially what I was asking. To what extent can she detect metal when using her semblance. I suppose it would make sense if minimal use came with minimal detection. Guess we'll have to wait untill she uses it more.