Talk:Svart Niemann/@comment-24416658-20160731002612/@comment-28893060-20160731160912

His Semblance doesn't actually change the state of matter (it doesn't, for example, evaporate or freeze water instantaneously), just the interaction between two surfaces (so he can make walking through air just like moving through water even though the air remains gaseous: it's just that the molecules in direct contact with the surface he influences are harder to push). Is it still in need of changing? Pyrrha's Semblance also interacts with electromagnetism, which is one of the four fundamental forces.

The weapon is not missing any detail: they're pretty much rockets strapped to his wrists that propel him forward and do nothing else. He uses them to punch people or to move quickly.

As for his backstory, my idea was that he was pardoned for his (relatively minor) crimes that mostly involved theft and robbery, without any murders, because Atlas, as a militaristic state that doesn't however have an obligatory draft (from what we can infer from the World of Remnant video about Huntsmen), will probably try and find ways to get "volunteers" for their armed forces. Is it okay, or does it need to be changed?