User blog:Kyran Kandosa2/Help wanted!

Hello everyone. I'm in a bit of a spot right now. I have 3 elementalist OCs, though only 1 is currently up right now, Richard Snowden. My trouble is that I'm told that the way I planned for them to manipulate their elements, through Semblance, isn't properly confirmed as canon. So, not wanting them to be stuck in "Awaiting Canon" once reviews start again, I'm now debating about making them mages instead of kinetics. The rub is that I'm not sure how to write a mage OC, especially since we haven't seen Velvet fight yet in Canon. Would the key to their power be some sort of Aura manipulation that they just happen to pair with one specific type of Dust(To me, this seems virtually identical to kinetics)? Or if they rely on glyphs, just what should the capabilities of these glyphs be, and would they still need Dust to supply them with their element? If you guys could leave suggestions and maybe links to existing mage-type OCs, that would be appreciated.