Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-174.89.110.232-20151116052124/@comment-174.89.110.232-20151116225830

Shadow-at-Morning, you lost me with the second sentence. How can 'mage' be descriptive if it relates to an ability manque? No mage would seem to me to prescribe no magic. If everyone in a anime or whatever is using magic (like Sailor Moon) you don't question how they do it; they get wands and upgrades and that's their primary stock in trading in fighting.

But in Remnant it seems just anyone can use dust to pull off magic-class effects. Why is Velvet *especially* named a mage as her function? What magic-class effects is she pullling off? I'm not trying to be difficult. I just don't get why Velvet's an especial mage defined as such (and her team greatly values her for it) if it isn't shown onscreen just what she's doing for the team while bunny-kicking and not using her box of goodies.

I seem to be drawing a completely different conclusion from yours (which is odd because I usually agree with your comments). If the whole of Remnant is magic-ridden and dust-driven, I get it, but that still leaves the issue of why, if everyone in Remnant is using magic to some degree, Velvet's overtop of them all special.

I think this is mostly a failure of the writing credo, 'show, don't tell.' They tell us Velvet is a mage but they don't show us how it works with her.

The Schnee family glyphs, on the other hand, appear to be magical in design rather than teleportation devices pure and simple. Let Velvet pop a glyph and bunny-leap from it onto a boarbatusk and I'll see the magic. Or let her throw a dust-screen of invisibility or safety or illusion, I'll see the magic. Those would be acts of a mage to me.

I wish they hadn't tagged Velvet with the function of mage if it actually isn't demonstrative of what she does in practice. Still, she has two more years at Beacon, assuming it's not destroyed this year, and she could come out on the screen with a developed sense of being a mage. One can hope.

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