Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33053086-20171006004010/@comment-26018514-20171122021627

MajoraSolaris wrote: sounds complicated my personal theory is that it is hereditary through a sort of magic "pool" so each member of the family who inherits it can utilize each others semblances as though they were their own, and Summoning was one of the first members of the pools ability, so it isn't so much that Weiss just had difficulty summoning, but that she couldn't resonate with her ancestor sufficiently enough to use it at all at first, and she may not have even discovered her personal Semblance at all yet.