Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-12705716-20130816001147/@comment-9090085-20130820001206

...uh, I kinda assumed Ruby's whole "hyper-speed" thing was because of the ammunition she loaded into Crescent Rose; you know, the "Cross Clips" people are still talking about? (And which people are still calling black holes? Really? Never-mind that a black hole sucks things in - how is that going to propel you anywhere?) Granted, Yang's "super mode" at the end of her trailer was almost certainly her power; then again, I've seen a few theories that pose the idea that Yang some kind of elemental or dragon turned into a human (or at least given a human-form)... I'm not really going to talk about those because they're pure conjecture at this point.

That's still not taking into account the very real possibility of one or both of them being adopted.

Wiess: Well, no, she doesn't make any sort of gesture before charging the Armour... but then again, Ruby didn't seem to use any obviously "magical" effect when she zipped infront of Weiss; nor did Pyrrha when she crashed through a few trees; nor did Adam and Blake when they moved so fast we could barely see them, before they jumped onto the train in the Black Trailer... I guess what I'm trying to say is: these "humans" have far greater physical abilities then we do; feats of speed or strength that seem superhuman to us my be the norm for them... or at least the norm for some of them, if the henchmen are any indication. Why? I don't know - maybe there is "dust" in the blood(or everyone's blood); it may not even be addressed.

As for why Wiess was surprised when Ruby popped ahead: I had assumed that she had assumed Ruby would be "slow" and "dead weight", and was stunned Ruby could actually keep up. Of course, we still haven't seen them fight at the same time; maybe Ruby is faster, maybe they're about the same speed, we don't know yet.

On a side note, when Ruby vanished at the end of episode five, her petals didn't scatter but all went in the same general direction - that makes it look to me like she turned into rose petals, or something like that. I guess I'm now thinking of that "ability" more like "gaseous form" or something along those lines.