Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-85.130.101.225-20130816112245/@comment-24891101-20140619074355

In terms of the trailers, I've always thought that, with the exception of "Red", they take place prior to Beacon, and that "White" was psychological. I thought that was the whole point of intercutting with the singing, not to mention the internal struggle implied by the song. "Red" is of course a weapons resume, as Monty said, and Ruby certainly seems much more confident. "Black" is pretty clearly Blake severing ties with the White Fang, and the train theft mentioned in "The Stray". "Yellow" is ambiguous, but seems to be prior as well, since Roman appears, and one or the other would likely engage.

With regard to Jaune's Semblance, based on how Cardin's hand was throbbing, it seems to not only be the Aura's defensive nature (healing, injury mitigation) but also an attack reflector. Immovable object, as it were. Possibly even shockwave projection. Also, it may be the paladin discussion here, but I've got this strange idea about laying on of hands for him, though that would likely be sufficient to be a Semblance, and people have merely one. He does need standoff capability. He's crypto-French, throwing axes?

Upthread it was mentioned that we need a chronology. Desperately. For my part, Dust was an ancient discovery several thousand years ago, that was used in primitive form, and may have synergistic effects with Aura. Admittedly, the whole Remnant thing may mean humans are aliens to the planet, and alighted upon the planet with a considerable techbase, after which they discovered Dust, compressing the timeframe. I think the first is more satisfying, personally. The discovery of Dust is, in many ways, comparable to metalworking revolutions, the discovery of fire, and the agricultural revolution. Parallels are inexact, of course.