Talk:Dust/@comment-172.2.74.190-20160419075911

I know I can't help with cyan dust (its used too often for to many things). I can help with the green dust (wind) and white dust (air). If you want the summary skip to the bottom but if you want my proof read all the way through.

Most peoples mistake between wind and air is we think its the same thing but it is not. Wind is the movement of air, Air is gas in the atmosphere. And RWBY sneekily does well at doing this.

Green dust or wind has been used by three people. Emerald, Reese and Dew. Emreald uses it as bullets (as seen in Lessoned learned.) Now here comes the difference by using those who use white dust or air.

Dew and Amber both use pole arms that have dust crystals of the respective color but both fight very differently from each other. When Dew uses the dust crystal, all she does is put it to the ground and it generates a tornado, but when Amber fights with the Dust crystal she must twirl her staff a lot to generate one air blast. The difference? Green generates already moving air, also known as wind but white can only generate air so it needs a momentum push. So whats the big deal? Well this is shown between Emerald, Reese, and Mercury.

As stated above Emerald uses green bullets while Mercury uses white and both of them fight with two different weapons. Mercury fights by using kicks. When he kicks a round is ejected. Since the round is air if all he did was pull a trigger then the shot would just create air, and that kind of shot would be like using an air cannon not very dangerous especially since all it would do is disperse. but since he kicks that air has force behind itself and so it acts like wind. This is different from Em who just has to pull a trigger and she gets a wind blast already.

Plus if you notice when Mercury spins while launching his air bullets they will follow his lead and circle around him.

Still not enough. Reese's hoverboard uses green dust and if you pay attention it never stops moving around until she turns it into a gun (which then it acts like Em's Guns) Now compare that to the stadium. The stadium has air dust below it and all it does is stay in place until they need to move it.

So really to sum it all up White Dust needs movement to get it going or it will just sit there floating while green is always oon the move.