Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140920054701/@comment-25411051-20140921200353

Mercen-X wrote:

Also note the use of the term "semblance." A semblance is something that is not exactly what is appears to be, but in all aspects strives to be similar. For Ruby, this explains how she is able to go from a standing position to flashing around the room. Speed is either constant or its not. That meaning that any object that begins at a still position must build momentum before acquiring a significant measure of speed. As anyone arguing against the viability of Iron Man's suit will tell you: sudden increased velocity to a human body can be deadly. Bones shatter, organs rupture, air is not able to properly filter in the lungs. Ruby's ability to sidestep these issues is not taken into account in the naming of her "semblance" because Speed is used as a summation not a direct translation of her ability. That's the purpose behind the word semblance. There are multiple aspects to anyone's particular skill, but it's name only tells one thing about it. WaaaaaaaY back when, before the phrases warp drive and hyperspace came to be, E.E. Doc Simth in his Lensmen series described the "Inertialless Drive" It was his way of breaking the cosmic speed limit.

In a nutshell it was a device that cancelled all of the inertia of an object, in his case a spaceship, so it could go full speed from a standing start. In the first test the ship "disappeared" when they engaged without propultion and the ship came to a stop while the planet kept orbiting the sun.

Having pulled obsolite theories out of my muddeled mind.

I suggest that Ruby is capable of canciling her own inertia, and using Cresent Rose's recoil to acheive 0 to ludicous speed in 0 sec without killing herself, as part of her semblance.

On second thought she would have to have much better control than just on off to pull off the pinwheel manuver in the red trailer, never mind getting left behind by the planet, but I think it's a start.