Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161003151422/@comment-10390252-20161003202600

The only limit on Semblance that I've seen is that it must be a distinct 'concept'; a single clearly-defined power, no matter how many applications an adept could make of it. For a while now, I've wondered if Ruby's Semblance is actually the control of kinetic energy. She can generate kinetic pulses that launch her in any direction that her will commands (this explains why she visibly is sometimes lifted off her feet when she uses her Semblance.

What about the rose petals trick? That's a tough one without invoking Ruby being able to utilise something analogous to The Flash's Speed Force. I'm wondering if it's just a really extreme bullet time, with Ruby moving so fast that she is able to dance around any attack or any object, literally appearing to be in multiple places at once.

In any case, my call is that the 'rose petals' are an ionisation effect - air molecules fluorescing red due to the extreme amount of energy Ruby is dumping into her environment. Just purely by coincidence, this effect is indistinguishable from the 'dark Aura' energy that Grimm 'bleed' when they're injured.

Similarly, the only relationship between Ruby's Semblance and the similar effect created by Adam's energy redirection Semblance is that it is ionised molecules fluorescing due to the sheer amount of energy that his most powerful attacks release.