Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26064215-20150127201253/@comment-74.194.230.101-20150223025928

LiveandSound wrote: -Akashic Sight seems...too powerful for human hands, in all honesty. That Semblance is basically manipulating part of the information of almost anything.

-Magic Eater: If you "eated" Death Dust, would you die? Also, what are the problems this Semblance would bring? Using too much Dust would only leave you tired, but that remediates itself quickly enough. It needs disadvantages other than "Can only use actual Dust" (which, by the way, it's available in almost-any store).

-Aura Manipulation...you're joking, right? Dude you're kind of a d*ck.

1) it only allows one to manipulate pre-existing energy flows, and there is obviously no pre-existing handbook for using it, as well, as mentioned, one can only manipulate energy flows that are within their limitations, no one gets godlike power

2) I meant that consuming too much dust would be literally harmful to the body, as well as having the effect of draining one rather quickly, and it doesn't have enough of a large-scale effect to require too much limitation anyway, Pyrrha's polarity is already far more powerful than this semblence.

3) Again this is primarily limited by the fact that it comes down to a force of will issue, and again it is only really useful against Grimm and machines in a second-hand fashion and its usefulness towards those with an aura is limited as one's aura is meant to protect them. A) one would have to overcome the aura's natural desire to aid a person in order to have it affect them negatively and B) one would still then have to face their force of will. As Pyrrha showed in like the second episode, it isn't implausible, if one can use their aura to unlock anothers, they are already using it to affect another person's aura. I see no reason why one's semblence couldn't expand on this pre-existing ability.