Talk:Alabaster Heart/@comment-24087318-20140908054420/@comment-24087318-20140909063719

Weiss' rapier contains different elements of Dust. And RWBY doesn't have a "magic" persay, spells and other effects are done through Dust and/or the characters Semblance. They're defined and explained. What Weiss did with that Haste ability could be her Semblance, but it could just as easily have been a mix of Dust kept in her weapon that she projected towards Blake using her Semblance, or just as a part of her weapon itself. We don't know which of any of these it could be.

Weiss also combines her Glyphs with Dust-based attacks to do things like propell icy missiles at something. (Like how she shot at the Nevermore with the rest of Team RWBY)

And no, we know there's Aura training, but we also know only a static few abilities Aura *CAN* do, and nothings that implies it can be used for anything else beyond the source for Semblance development. To say "Well, X is possible, so Y must be too" without any facts or evidence isn't exactly accurate. Aura can act as a force field, Ren demonstrates this. Unlocking the Aura of another is another ability, which yes, I didn't mention, but it's still not a unique ability. It's something anybody with an Aura can do.

I never said Faunus ears couldn't hear. I just said they only hear as well as a pair of human ears do. When they were talking about traits Faunus have, night vision was the only one that came up, they didn't mention they have superior hearing, smell, or anything of the sort. So as far as the Fanon is concerned, all of those senses remain on a base human level, regardless of physical trait, until something in the Canon says otherwise. Just being functional isn't enough.