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Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#41901: Nov 15th 2016 at 6:15:17 PM

semblance where supused to be unique actually and them they retcon that a episode later, is not imposible

That isn't really the case.

What Monty said in interviews was that each Semblance is unique but there is an aspect of inheritance through the generations.

Applying what he said to the Schnees, all that means is that there's a larger emphasis on the inheritance aspect than normal. There's still elements of uniqueness between Weiss and Winter's glyph usage and summoning, however. If you look carefully, they don't use their glyphs in the same way and their glyphs have different styles: it's like watching two sprint runners in the same race - they're both sprint runners and they probably did very similar types of training, but they will have their own individual running style - if you watch them closely.

When Cinder first got to Beacon she did have Emerald and Mercury make a list of kids and their semblances and did talk about stealing them.

That isn't what Cinder said. She talked about taking a person's power away. The fandom speculated over what she meant by that and the two most common theories was that she was planning to steal Semblances or that she was planning to de-power someone by ruining their reputations or abilities (or both) in such a way as to render them a non-threat.

In the end, the latter is what she was setting out to do: she set out to ruin Ozpin and Ironwood's reputations (and by extension, the other Academies, too); she turned the robotic army against the people it was designed to protect, which was a form of 'stealing' the power of Atlas's army (and contributed to damaging Ironwood/Atlas's reputation); by messing with her head, Pyrrha's Semblance was 'turned against her' in the sense that she couldn't use it properly and was forced to use it wildly - with tragic results; and so on.

It's one thing to teleport yourself just by energy, in fictionland the Required Secondary Powers are the ability to control the destination and see where the hell you're going.

Required Secondary Powers for teleportation depend on the story's creators. There are plenty of examples of stories where characters could blink all around the place without knowing much of anything about their destination. There are plenty of examples of stories where the creators have required the teleporter to know the destination in order to tone down the ability's usability within that setting.

It's definitely not a good idea to assume that teleporters will always automatically have such requirements for their abilities to work.

It's one thing to 'port yourself, in Raven was using magic why not t-p some other hunters or allies when she saved Blake? It wasn't for lack of energy since Torchwick trying to beat Blake into her next incarnation would be a big enough emergency that would call for use of "magic". Since Raven ported in then ported out I vote for semblance.

You're assuming the ability to teleport others beyond oneself. That's not a safe assumption to make.

edited 15th Nov '16 6:25:56 PM by Wyldchyld

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#41902: Nov 15th 2016 at 9:39:19 PM

We'll see when we see more of Raven (hopefully).

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#41903: Nov 15th 2016 at 9:42:11 PM

I finally caught up with the series. Then me and my girlfriend binged the whole thing.

Just wanna say, if Emerald becomes a good guy, she called it on the first episode of volume 3.

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Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#41904: Nov 15th 2016 at 9:44:49 PM

You're assuming the ability to teleport others beyond oneself. That's not a safe assumption to make.

While I disagree with most of what Tairai is saying, you have to admit that portals almost always have the ability to teleport anyone who steps through them, rather than just the caster. That's why they're portals and not just straight teleporting.

Of course, the reason Raven doesn't use these to help others is unclear because we have absolutely no idea what her goals or allegiances are.

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#41905: Nov 16th 2016 at 6:04:00 AM

It depends on the nature of the portal, because even if it could transport other people it might not be without side effects.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#41906: Nov 16th 2016 at 6:13:51 AM

Next time on RWBY: Quantum Physics, Spatial Orientation, and is Atlas's newest cuisine made out of Faunus? "They made a girl out of robot parts, and now they're feeding their citizens Faunus meat! More on pg.12!"

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#41907: Nov 16th 2016 at 6:50:10 AM

Page? Newspaper page?

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#41908: Nov 16th 2016 at 7:25:40 AM

I mean I'm... 60 percent sure Remnant has those. Holographic ones, maybe. Ozpin's coffee habits reflect the existence of some kind of daily paper for him to read while drinking such.

And given the scythes as practical weapons, boats and airships, and wagons and blacksmith towns, dance clubs and kingdoms, etc. I'm sure the existence of old-fashioned newspapers wouldn't be out of place in this Anachronism Stew.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41909: Nov 16th 2016 at 5:15:57 PM

So, what exactly do you think Salem is?

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#41910: Nov 16th 2016 at 5:16:51 PM

Whatever Ozpin is. :p

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TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
#41911: Nov 16th 2016 at 5:22:13 PM

[up][up] Mother Grimm. "Mother Grimm's Fairy Tales" is a thing after all.

VutherA Since: Jul, 2009
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#41913: Nov 16th 2016 at 6:49:50 PM

A non-human woman who hates humans for some reason.

The legend has returned.
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#41914: Nov 16th 2016 at 6:53:15 PM

"The idea that a Semblance is a unique, often personality driven power, is still very strong outside of that. "

but Weiss semblence was her alone...until she wasnt, so I can imagine some family having heritage semblence two, there is not reason why not

So, we saw Yang, Blake and Weiss, we will return to Ruby?

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#41915: Nov 16th 2016 at 6:58:24 PM

Next episode will rerun to young Rwby and her RNJR squad.

Development.

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#41916: Nov 16th 2016 at 7:08:20 PM

@LSBK: As far as what Salem is, my own theory is that she's the sole survivor of a race of precursors whose extinction was in part engineered by Ozpin in the pursuit of his apparent immortality, which I speculate is a form of Resurrective Immortality that comes at a horrific cost ala Planescape Torment

While he now deeply and sincerely regrets what he did in the past, Salem hasn't forgiven him, and intends to avenge her people. Even if that means wiping out the entire human race to deny him his means of resurrection.

edited 16th Nov '16 7:08:51 PM by CaptainCapsase

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#41917: Nov 16th 2016 at 7:19:18 PM

I'm betting she worked at a cafe Ozpin used to frequent for his coffee fix and he didn't leave a tip. She's sworn vengeance for that day.

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#41919: Nov 16th 2016 at 9:48:49 PM

She's to the Grimm what King Piccolo was to the Demon Clan?

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#41920: Nov 16th 2016 at 10:02:23 PM

So, not related at all?

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#41921: Nov 16th 2016 at 10:08:48 PM

Salem is Ozpin's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#41923: Nov 16th 2016 at 10:13:48 PM

Which is what Ozpin has now become!

VutherA Since: Jul, 2009
#41924: Nov 16th 2016 at 10:24:54 PM

...I knew it, I'm surrounded by assholes.

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#41925: Nov 16th 2016 at 10:27:28 PM

The Demon Clan was what King Piccolo called the group of him and his sons.

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