Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-93.172.97.165-20161023190354/@comment-27450328-20161025150155

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Kaptainbradukk wrote:

Grimmdamnit, I hate explaining time-based powers, that's incredibly messy. Hope it's clearer. And again, that's just my little theory. Well, it wasn't. Your idea of how time would "work" in this case makes no sense, at all, and rather defies the more conventional ways time works in fiction. Time flows, it does not "stack", and the way you "explain" it doesn't really make the idea make sense, even less does it explain how would such thing rejuvenate him to childhood.

The closest is that Ozpin supposedly stores (not stacks) time in his cane. But that can be interpreted differently: That, basically, he's making the cane age in his place. And as proven by Jaune's decades-old family sword, even old weapons can remain effective for a damn long time. But that's it.

And some of your arguments can be confronted with Occam's Razor:

1-How did Ozpin live for 80+ years? Simple: Aura. Aura doesn't heal, but rather improves the body's natural recovery so it heals faster. With a powerful-enough Aura, this means one would also age more slowly, or more precisely, their body would decay over time more slowly. As we age, we get weaker, but Aura slows it down, preserving youth for longer. And, we know from the WoR that Aura can make one "more than just a man", while showing Ozpin.

2-How did he sped up when fighting Cinder? Not by spending any stacked time or anything. He simply used Time Dilatation, his power if not Semblance. If you make things move slower in time around you, to others it's the same as you moving faster. Well, sorry if it is not clear. To summary the thing, age is stacked in the cane and the body as time goes by. When used, it decrease, lowering the age stacked in the item/body. For the latter, the decreased in time stacked (thus age), is shown by a rejunevation. I understand it can mess with how most people see time as something going in only one way, but in my opinion, it make sense.

Ozpin can indeed store time in his cane that was said by the RWBY team. From that, I only assumed that his power was to store and use time. Indeed his cane could have been his main stack and can age at his place, but maybe he can use his own body as an emergency stock.

I am not sure aura would allow someone to live for that long, but again, Ozpin seems like a powerful individual, so it's entirely plausible.

That can also be another interpreation of his power. Then again, I am not assuming my ideas are true, only making theories.