User blog:Xanneer/Required secondary powers for semblances

OK, so we all know what semblances are about, right? They're basically the superpowers of RWBY. Specifically they allow a person manipulate natural phenomenon. I'm not gonna lecture you guys cause I assume you all already know what's what. I'm just gonna get to the meat and bones of the matter.

So a while back I created a blog asking whether a couple semblances I thought up would be viable or not for my OC. Unfortunately they didn't pass for a couple of reasons. One semblance allowed her to change the toughness of her body, turning from soft as jelly to as hard as stone. The particular reasons the opponents presented as agruments was concerning the specifics and mechanics of the semblance. Where would the body fluids go, how would she breathe if she got squished by a boulder, how would she breath if her entire body turned to rock. This is all concerning stuff that relates to a specific TVTropes article I read a while back called "Required Secondary Powers" Click the link if you'd like to see what its all about. The basic gist is that many powers, when applied to reality, have problems. These problems are never adressed in fiction. Let me use a couple examples from RWBY.

Ruby has the power of Super Speed. The problem here is that if you were to run Really, really, really fast IRL, the air would cause friction with your body, causing serious chafing, and maybe catching on fire if fiction is to be believed. (Probably not, but it seems to make some sense) Yang can create fire around her, but she herself never gets burnt. Now you could reasonably make the assumption that their Aura is protecting their body, and that would make sense. But theres also the fact with Ruby that if you run really fast, you can't just stop really fast. Think about when you run or walk. When you walk, you are slow and can stop instantly. But if you sprint, you take a few seconds before you actually stop. A better example would be when you drive a car. If you just slam the brakes after driving at 100 MPH, you'll still be skidding for a few feet and you may have dislodged a few joints or something. Ruby is able to stop in an instant and she is capable of extreme speeds.

The point here is that where exactly do we draw the line when it comes to ignoring reality for a work of fiction, to saying that it plain doesn't work when it comes to making OCs for RWBY? A lot of super powers in fiction have problems when you start to put some thought in them. Lets take a few looks at Monty's old works. In an episode od Dead Fantasy, one character had like half a dozen arrows shot into her, yet she was still able to kill dozens of ninjas despite being skewered by several arrows and bleeding profusley. I'd honestly like the opinions of the wiki fandom as a whole and especially some thoughts from the mods, reviewers and such. At what point exactly is a semblance stretching it too far?