Talk:Dust/@comment-67.140.221.145-20160921190854/@comment-4010415-20160922153243

1. When Cinder made the obsidian swords, only one color of Dust was seen. We only saw orange. That's it. That's literally it. We did not see her use anything else, just the orange glow on her clothes.

People can control the stuff that manifests from their Dust use. We've seen Weiss make sheets of ice instead of ice spikes. We've seen Dew control the tornadoes she made. It's not hard to imagine that someone could control the lava they make and use their Aura to manipulate it into quickly cooling into obsidian in whatever shape they want.

The arrows she fired at Amber were metal. She wasn't using obsidian yet.

We have seen her fire something that acted like liquid, in V1E1. The shot that Glynda blocked splattered onto the ground and even had a splatter sound effect.

I don't buy for a second that the designs on Cinder's stealth suit were red Dust but only looked orange from heat. The designs glowed orange, period. This doesn't look to me like it's red Dust that looks a different color. It looks like bright orange Dust being used.

4. Ruby saying "I don't think that's her Semblance" was the writers' way of saying "Cinder's Semblance is not glass."

I think the reason steam Dust exists is because, if they make steam using fire Dust and water Dust, they can't very well control the steam that results, but if they create steam using steam Dust, that is a manifestation of the Dust they've used, so they can control it/manipulate it.