Thread:Elektro7/@comment-28257386-20140529152442/@comment-28257386-20140529191857

-Yes, that is basically what I was going for. The dust shots are the same as Ruby's (assuming she uses dust). They just act as bullets with no particular properties.

-Yes that is correct. I envision dust as something similar to a battery. Every shot depletes the energy from the crystal, and I assume that crystals are not rechargable, so the crystal would lose mass with each shot. In simpler terms, the crystal would just lose energy and become dull in color.

-I don't think I ever said that the recoil or shockwave of VV was all that strong. I tried to model the shotgun mode akin to real life shotguns which can reach pretty long distances, unlike shotguns in a video game which have laughably awful range compared to the real deal. Let me try to explain how VV works: VV has four separate barrels. In rifle form, VV is a rectangular prism, and the four barrels are each found on one of the four sides. When in rifle form, VV concentrates the dust so that the dust blasts can reach longer distances and deal more damage. Its like if you were to shine four separate rays of light into a magnifying glass, the four rays would combine into a single, much brighter light. When they are separated, the dust is much weaker and cannot reach as far. I envisioned the shotgun as having the same strength and recoil as Yang's weapons. But whereas Yang's shotgun blasts are concentrated, deal lots of damage, and reach long distances (The nevermore fight), VV is much more spread out, is relatively harmless the further you are from the bast, and has a much shorter range than Yang's weapons. I don't quite understand why you think the shockwave was so strong, I only imagined it as sending an opponent flying a few feet away or at least disorientating them like if you blew a leaf blower in someone's face all of a sudden

-Alright, I get what you are saying about dust and its function. Again, I was basing dust on traditional magic that you would often see in media like in video games. I suppose this would be case of awating canon info.

-For semblance, I'm a little confused because I have conflicting sources about whether everyone has a semblance or whether some people have a semblance and some don't.