THEORY : Dust, Magic, and Semblances Are all Connected 

I can't tell if that would make them more or less meaningful. Also, how do you think ironwood got his semblance?

I agree with the theory as well

Tell me where tf raven went after she supposedly “killed” cinder?

yeah I’m caught up I’m just saying “killed” as in that’s what should’ve happened

Yeah honestly you could make an entire video of other people’s traumas and semblances. Ex. Blake needing to survive a stab and making a clone sounds like a plausible trauma for a former white fang.

That seems likely

Yup. Also there seems to be this pressure constantly put on them to continue the family’s legacy and maintain its image, which would also almost certainly contribute to having similar/the same semblances.

I don't think it's mutually exclusive. There can certainly be more than one "noble" family who, back when semblances were young, "took control" of their own destiny. Technically, all you would need to create a hereditary semblance, if Critter's theory is correct, is recreate a trauma in the next generation. Feeling helpless and out of control for the first Schnee, then feeling put upon and wanted to destroy someone who punished them with the very same methods they used, and over the years it morph's into a sort of feedback, shaped by powerful family circumstance. The fist Schnee Glyphs may have looked wildly different from each other, and only over time did they become uniform, as the shape of the family's influence became more solid. Meanwhile, rational people don't go around subjecting their kids to the same traumas they had as children to force them to develop superpowers that are a perfect mirror of their own... probably. XD

I'm going to piggy back off this and say with absolutely no proof but rather pure conjecture of all Hereditary Semblances. What if the person who originally unlocked a hereditary semblance did so with an emotional/mental state of wanting to protect their descendants (during the traumatic experience as theorised by critter). Because what better way to ensure the life of your kids than to pass down a powerful ability so you can protect them even after you're gone.

@@antondevonlh Fair point. My biggest fear with this theory, and rwby theories in general is that the writers won't use any of the good stuff and make it either bland, stupid sounding or both. Like when they gave Rwby's semblance an explanation aside from vroom vroom, or with Cinder's backstory being a carbon copy of Cinderella's except worse.

Wow, I like this theory. And maybe the semblance is very versatile because each generation had their own trouble with dust ?

Also oz reincarnations have the same op semblances

That actually makes a lot of sense for a gacha person

@@burnt.alaska you know, I was gonna get mad at you for saying that, but I’m just gonna take the compliment and say thanks

Well in a campion book it states the hereditary semblance are rare but not limited to the Schnees

Yeah, after seeing (spoilers) full metal alchemist and Philosopher's stones, dust feels similar... I mean, its a totally original thing that isn't derivative of any other work at all! Really! Also, in answer to your question, I would have liked if the show could have, like the last airbender, introduced an Idea of fate or destiny without it being the last words of a character before they died, and then never had it mentioned again. Anybody else hate volume 3?

Aura is the soul though,what exactly is magic?

@@grantlangkamp1909 How should I know? I'm not the one writing this nonsense.

@@grantlangkamp1909 No aura is a manifestation of the soul not the soul itself.

@@antoniofaulkner2423 it's interchangeable

@@antoniofaulkner2423 Semblance, Dust, Aura and Silver Eyes are basically just a "Schism" of Magic.

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@Salvatore Izaiah instablaster ;)

so are you implying that the past generation of schnee went thru that same family trauma? including Willow (their mom) and grandfather ( i think he was nikolas or something).

@@naturemage2 I think their grandfather was likely the originator of the semblance, and we don't actually know if Willow unlocked her semblance Edit: you could also think of it as family helping to overcome trauma

This has a non-zero likelihood of being the case. Piggybacking off the back of this thought process, Jacques La Asshole Grande wouldn't have this semblance because he married into the family so we'd have to figure out what his damage is some other time, but it *is* confirmed that WIllow has glyphs. Considering the Schnee family crest and their glyph semblance are both a snowflake, we can assume it's probably almost never skipped a generation as well. This would mean that the snowflake glyph semblance is a symbol of status as a member of this family. A family with a high place in society. If it's one thing high society families suffer from, it's pressure from without and within to maintain a certain image. The constant pressure to live up to this image of what it means to be a Schnee is likely enough to force later generations to develop the glyph. The marriage with Jacques was likely for political reasons considering their position in society, not to mention what sort of pressures her home life was like outside of that. High society families being a never-ending cycle of emotional abuse as the children grow until they either enter the fold or leave the family is a pretty common trope in writing. Throw in some abusive asshole like Jacques to push the girls to the point of basically abandoning the family just to escape him as soon as they're old enough to, and you have a recipe for, as Weiss so aptly put, a very difficult childhood. Any small thing they felt could get him off their backs or just lessen his abuse even for a moment was likely worth several times its weight in gold. Honestly with Jacques in the picture it's borderline prophetic for the two girls to get the semblance, and I think it's only a matter of time until their younger brother gets it. At this point I think it's just a matter of him probably not having the requisite training to use it, even though that's been shown to be irrelevant in life / death situations like ren and nora.

@@naturemage2 It's implying that the entire Schnee line has the same trauma as Weiss, beyond her grandfather. I'm not very comfortable with it.

I always thought that they were the descendants of salem and ozma and their children had natural magic so many generations later their magic would still be around in house schnee and even ruby could be a descendant of natural magic.

Not always. A semblance can either correlate to the character or be the complete opposite. I believe it was said in volume 4 or 5

Damn... That would be so interesting to unravel in the show!!!

Thinking about it, He never revived Ozma's body, Just put his mind into someone's mind while they were alive.... So the God of light Bent his own rule to do this.

Kinda make sense. Like what if he knows they both fucked up by making that one woman who spites them be Immortal. Since both brother's powers were involved and one brother left, he can't fix this mistake by himself nor can take it back as that would look badly in the presence of his brother (not being able to stand by your decision and to set an example). Also how did humanity comeback? If all humans except Salem died. Did they get created again? Or did only those with magic get wiped out and non-magical humans survive? Finally, I think semblances came from the offspring of the 4 little girls that Salem and Oz had. If they actually survived the crossfire tho.

@@dknighteli actually it was explained in the video you just watched via theorizing. Man was born from dust. They came into existence from the dust of the dead humans

@@kingdoppelganger8951 Oh like evolution and shit. Checks out.

Pocket Dimension semblance?

@@alexbraun55 No. OOU OF NOWHERE. An objects that didn't exist and now suddenly exists

@@MewDenise A Pocket Dimension IS "From out of nowhere" A Pocket Dimension is specifically a Vacuum void with nothing in it unless you put something in it

@@shelbybayer200 I think his point is that the specific semblance we're talking about requires you to put in whatever you take out, and can't *create* something new with it

Well actually magic does not create chairs or tables out of nothing its put together by magic imagin it like this magic is energy the User can Form this energy into matter becouse matter and energy is the same and then Just turn the magic matter (mattic lol) into the chair and table

That’s more so transportation

@@nigelcarter6895 she turns into rose petals yes it is called speed but it’s because of a transformation

@@ragingmonkeycritic well, technically, if we're going by Penny's explanation, its debatable whether its a transformation.

@@alexbraun55 Well, technically, if we are going by Penny's explanation it *is* a transformation. Penny literally says that Ruby breaks her body down to its molecular level and rearranges it to become a sentient cloud of rose petals and then breaks it down again and rearranges it to the state it was previously in.

@@bishop782 I don't know about the rearranging part

Yeah I'm pretty sure that the creators said that gravity and hard light dust were manufactured and that's why they're expensive you can't just mine it out.

@@j3ssthealien283 Hard light is solely manufactured. Gravity and the others can be manufactured and are also naturally occurring. The floating islands over the lake in volume 5 have natural gravity dust in them.

@@jakeperez8242 I did not know that I haven't seen volume five in a while

That would make sense plus it's a fact that they fought that means they could have created stuff to fight each other inorder to compete and see who could make the better living being's.

Nah man silver eyes are just anti-magic

Didn't it get stated in seasons six that he was the reason for people with silver eyes?

YES!

Well, I mean, isn't that what happened to cinder?

@@bishop782 exactly what i was about to comment she unlocked her semblance as a slave

@@bishop782 Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You'd think it'd be a common enough occurrence that it would make any sort of abuse backfire on the abuser.

@@redlock1353 I just think that it means that you are right, and slavery is very hard to maintain in Remnant. It can exist though, because as we saw with Cinder, when she was very young and couldn't really fight back, she was abused. I think it really depends on age. so you could have people who are young as slaves, but the older they get, the harder it is to control them.

@@bishop782 Fair point.

The creators of the show already confirmed this theory Recently

The anti power "power" in shows always weirds me out. Like if such a semblance exists, to take and potentially give semblance at will, would Salem and Ozma not be aware of such an ability and would they not be able to do the same through all their magical power? I guess you could argue that maybe they just never thought of it but I feel like that would easily be something Salem would want to look into and exploit.

Also, jesus I just realized how old this video and comment are