Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-3965075-20150620202833/@comment-203.59.197.50-20150718155015

Phantomlink959 wrote: Well, for one, his name doesn't meet CNR.

Everything up until combat is meh. a bit bland, and his personality doesn't connect with the alleged trope. Oh, and unless he's starting late for some reason he should be 17 as a first year at Beacon.

.... For one, I never said he mastered them. But has trained in them. Also, he has the word "Sea" in his name, if you didn't catch that. It can also be read as "Ocean". Now what was the CNR rule? "If it relates to something of colour" or "It makes you think of a colour" it's fine.

The way he fights is based on how well he can guage the opponents strength, this is why he tries to challenge strong fighters in order to measure his own strength. When you fight others, you learn. You gain experience. You begin to understand how to 'size up' an opponent. I'm sure you'd be able to do the same if you trained day after day in martial arts, as well as trained with people of other disciplines.

What I've written about his ability, I clearly state that if it's too powerful, he cannot do anything to it. So there is a limit. His limit is his own strength and stamina. You can use your own god damn knowledge to understand that something it too much for you to take, unless you have no common sense. However, disguising something as weak, but it's actually really powerful, is a totally different thing. If I were to allow him to stop a falling tanker, then I would've allowed him to take the kinetic energy from a regular bullet and use it.

The manifestation is purely visual. Because when you think of Lightning, you also think of energy. Power if you will. Movement is a form of energy, and that energy can thus be used to create electricity.

Your semblance is not judged by your personality alone, it also judged by the way you train yourself and the lifestyle that you lead. However I do understand that it's overly complicated. I tend to do that a lot.

If you wanted to talk about your personality being the sole variable to determine your semblance, I'd start asking about Weiss and Pyrrha. From what I understand, Weiss' personality doesn't manipulate people, it doesn't really make people move faster, she doesn't keep people in place either. Also for Pyrrha, from what I understand, she doesn't draw people in. They don't gravitate to her personality. She doesn't push people away either. I could be totally wrong, but from what I understand, your personality isn't the be all or end all of your semblance.

I'm sure the academy will have no problem with a student being slightly older than the rest of his cohort. It's like starting school later than everyone else.

I will not deny that his personality is a little bland, he's a work in progress. Nobody is finished. They only grow with time and interaction.