Slight correction, on Twitter Eddie corrected the information stated in the RWBY RTX panel about Ironwoods semblance being active after his aura broke. According to Eddie, his semblance could not be active due to his aura being broken, I was not aware of Eddie's correction before filming the video. Presumably this also applies to when the beam almost fell on Ruby in Volume 4, that it was just random chance instead of being due to Qrow's semblance, though it is implied in the show that the beam falling was due to Qrow's Misfortune. The rest of the theory about Passive semblances still could be the case though
Have you ever thought about the theory of The Bronwen Twins getting their ability to become birds from the Relic od Choice. I think they do because Ozpin in sesaon 5 talked about how they got their ability and he mentioned that he can do that once in awhile
I have a theory passive semblance can only develop on the non born bebé and active semblance on people that didn’t get a passive one and passive are really rare so that’s why they are so powerful and rare
I find it hypocritical of Hazel to join Salem's faction since she's the other half of why his sister is dead. Despite that it was Ozpin's fault to recruit youths into becoming huntsmen, Salem is the growing evil that forced him to do so. She's the Grimm queen who set off her creatures out in Remnant to terrorize and divide humanity. Even if Hazel's sister didn't join, it would still be inevitable for her to die one day from a Grimm attack or something worse
Amuzer I feel like as some sort of reconciliation he’ll have to save emerald and Mercury in some way and forgive himself for not being able to save his sister kinda like a second chance he’ll get to not blame himself and move on from the past
Everyone seems to forget about Mercury's Father's semblance. That damn thing was permanent not temporary. My best guess is that it operated something like All For One, where he had to actively try to steal the target's semblance and actively try to give it back
I've always believed that Qrow's Semblance probably kill his mother when he and Raven were born, making him hated as a child and causing his to have such self hatred and such.
@@iceluvndiva21 Maybe she died not when he was born but shortly after his semblance was unlocked when he was a bit older, which is why he knows he has a bad luck semblance.
The contents of the mission, which I do hope we find out more about, isn't too important to Hazel. It was the methods that Oz used to lure Gretchen to attend Beacon, implying that he wanted her to be one of his "chosen", similar in the same way as Ruby and Pyrrha. Perhaps even at the same age. After all, Gretchen "was a child". Now that we know that Hazel wasn't just some overbearing big brother (Ozpin sort of hints that was the case) but twins with Gretchen, this allows us to recontextualize that line and likely take it at face value. Gretchen was likely younger than the normal age of admittance.
Yeah, how semblances affect someone’s biology is definitely a thought-provoking concept. And yet even concepts like human cloning and genetic engineering haven’t been touched on in the World of Remnant so far, but that’s a whole different can of blindworms. If you’re going to ask, the Greek hero Cadmus would be the perfect inspiration for a geneticist-type character in the Remnant-verse since, in Greek mythology, he created new life by sowing dragon’s teeth into the earth, giving birth to the city-state of Thebes in the process, and the phrase “to sow dragon’s teeth” is a metaphor for doing something that instigates any kind of dispute whether it’s a debate or a fight, which would fit well considering how cloning, human or otherwise, is already a highly debatable topic. Think about it.
Yeah the only snag is that Passive semblances have been confirmed to deactivate after an aura break. Ironwood did not have Mettle active when he seared his arm off, Qrow likely only had an aura crack not an actual break against Tyrian (or it was just the Terrain being really iffy not his actual semblance that caused the beam to fall). Passive semblances may always be there, active to some small degree, as long as there is aura mind you, but I wonder if thats actually true. I think the concept of passive may not mean always active, rather it means it effects a trait or condition of the user (kinda like a buff in an RPG vs an actual attack. Using harden in pokemon increases def and is passive vs using tackle which would be an active semblance) This would mean the following: Mettle does not make Ironwood stubborn he needs to willingly make his semblance augment his trait first. (I believe he does so by squinting) Clover is always shown using a tool before the effect manifests (his iconic lapel flick) his only moment of good luck was the card game which could be attributed to qrow. Hazel may have genuinely felt pain after Nora hit him because he was caught off guard by Weiss's summon and was not actually using his semblance in that precise moment. (I have not noticed any pattern in his semblance use yet) Honestly, Qrow seems to be the only one who does not actively need to call upon his semblance to use it, though this may instead be attributed to him not understanding it. It could be that he does not know how to control his semblance at all (an active semblance that he randomly activates subconsciously in bursts or a passive semblance that he subconsciously turns on) I know it sounds weird lol but the writers have been inconsistent with how semblances and aura actually work so its anyones guess. Ironwood blurred the line real hard because he has shown equal amounts of willpower and resolve with and without aura. Semblances appear to augment or manifest in a way that complements the mindset of the hunter James is stalwart to a fault Glynda is a control freak Pyrrha desires to bond with others Qrow is pessimistic Clover is optimistic Ren chooses to stifle his emotions, etc. So "passive semblances" can be hard to understand from a viewer's perspective because some are so close to character traits, like Ironwood.
4:39 Don't forget. Ren said some believe that there sembalnce determined the personality of someone. Or visa versa. (I don't remember, the exact wording.)
The whole thing about Qrow and Raven's upbringing is the kind of thing I would like to see brought up if RT ever do a team STRQ spin off, or at least make some mention of it in a future RWBY volume.
I personally think that Jax's condition is a result of a prolonged exposure to Jill's ability, being so close to her 24/7. I believe Ren mentioned in volume 5 that either people define their semblances or the other way around. I haven't read the book so I don't know about Jill's personality. If her character is fitting for someone who can take and give, then that's a point in favour of semblances being predetermined. But in some cases like Weiss it could just be hereditary, since such a powerful ability would fit being inherited from ancient royalty.
So the semblance as we've seen so far often becomes active when the person is in a desperate situation where one's own survival or (I guess I'm Jaune's case and possibly Ren's) another's survival is threatened and seems to be based on the exact need they have at that moment, whether to survive a lightning strike, hide emotion from Grimm or boost someone else's aura and healing as the examples we've seen so far. Gillian's survival could've been threatened in utero at some point during her development, especially being a twin, and as a developing foetus the only useful semblance that could be granted for survival would pretty much be something related to getting the nutrition and healing she needed to survive hence the aura siphoning. Maybe Jax's semblance would also have arisen in that same desperate moment if hers hadn't arisen first and stolen too much of his aura, as we saw he needed her to gift him some before he could discover his semblance. So I'm guessing something potentially threatened both of them and then Gillian's semblance activated to protect her even though it then did end up killing the person bearing them and indirectly threatening her survival but I guess her semblance was still doing its best with the power it had available I mean semblances don't generally activate on something non-viable.
Hazel was jack up on two different types of dust, I don't know that if it helped him heal/recover but until it ran it's course through his system it at least kept him from blacking out. Long enough to get to their air-ship and then rest on the trip back to Salem's domain it seems. Or since Hazel visited Ms. Malachite for info they could've also stopped at a "crime clinic" to get patched up before reporting to Salem.
Some semblances are really obvious which are the active ones, like Ruby who can turn her body into rose petals, Blake who can set a clone in her location, Weiss who can draw glyps on any surface. Is Yang passive, as she increases strength when taking damage as long she has aura to spare? The one I think is wierd is Maria with the semblance of Preflexes as she could accurately predict everything like incoming bullets and smack them with the Alive and Death to block them EXCEPT after her aura was broken and Tock went and bite through her scythe. Her aura was broken at that point, so I wonder if that took away her semblance completely or just decreased her focus that much to the point she could get surprised by the bite and headbutt and slice through her eyes.
I'm pretty sure conjoined twins would each have their own semblance since they're two people that literally share a part of their body from birth. The effects of their semblances would depend on the semblances themselves & whether or not the set of conjoined twins underwent separation surgery.
I heavily disagree. The writers have confirmed multiple times that semblances can't work if aura is broken, in particular they pointed out that Ironwood's "Mettle" was not active when he was freeing his trapped arm precisely because he had no aura. Not to mention that I think Myers wasn't really caring about being consistent with what we know from the main show's continuity and the books shouldn't be considered canon. Also we know for a fact that you can have your shield down when you still have aura available, as Ren and Ozpin say that it needs to be activated manually.
I've always thought that it is impossible for someone to entirely "run out" of aura. I think it is generated constantly, which would mean that any passive semblance would be permanently active. When an aura "breaks," the person's aura level probably just reached a low enough point that they are no longer able to protect themselves with a force field. A person's aura shield can reach zero while aura cannot reach zero until death. Semblances that require aura to use would no longer be usable after the force field breaks, and passive semblances would continue because they just decrease the person's aura regeneration speed a bit. This makes the most sense to me, and I think it clears up a lot of the show's contradictions about aura.
I don't agree with you entirely.(and technically the show too) cause the show definitely has it fair share of loop/plot holes regarding this. An example would be Mercury: He stated that his father stole his semblance, then Merc killed his father during their fight. Mercury should've gotten his semblance back then when either A) his father's aura broke in the fight or B) when his father died. How come it was permanent? Obviously we don't know much about the situation and stuff. There always the possibility that Merc does have it but he just wholeheartedly believes he doesn't have it back. I hate that they state something but have something in the show that contradicts it.
@@seraph7934In Mercury's case, I'm pretty sure his father wouldn't need aura to keep someone's semblance. He would use aura to take a semblance and use aura to give a semblance back. He died with Merc's semblance, so he could no longer give it back. It is also possible that Marcus was lying to Mercury. Maybe he never stole Merc's semblance and manipulated him into believing it was stolen. If this were the case, it would be true that Merc still has his semblance like you said.
My personal theory on whether semblances are predetermined or not is...yes and no. I believe they have a core that is predetermined but, a lot of room for meshing with whoever the person becomes. Qrow and Clover, for example, I would call having a luck "base semblance" that manifested in the form of misfortune and good luck respectively. Blake and Sun would likely have the same base semblance but, their personalities are distinct enough for the manifested power to be clearly different between the two. Ironwood could probably be considered to be in the same category as Emerald as both mess with the mind but, in clearly distinct ways.
I have a couple theories related to this myself. The first is that maybe a person has the potential of one of two semblances, one being passive and the other being active, and it's just that there's a 20-80 chance of which a person awakens. (and maybe because twins are developed at the same time, that semblance chance is automatically split between them)* The second is that maybe passive semblances are determined from conception but active semblances are in flux until awakened, meaning it is isn't a guaranteed by the soul. *though I don't really know how that would work biologically for non-identical twins
An excellent theory! I agree. This theory also helps me with my OC, Turquo Mauve with his siren like voice. His semblance Frozen Voice is a passive semblance, affecting people even when his simply talking.
While I can understand Hazel’s outlook at blaming Ozpin for his sister’s what I don’t get is how he goes about “getting his revenge” he in a sense is out there killing huntresses who very well could have been his sister and as we saw in Volume 5 he has no qualms with killing a female huntsman student who could be practically the same age his sister was
I think they explained it poorly. I believe it is a state of self hypnosis he needs to actively call upon. My view is that he pushes himself beyond human limits by focusing on goals. For example when he decided to prioritize Amity over Mantle, everytime the kids talked to him he showed through body language he hated abandoning Mantle i any sense but then doubled down. When he faced Salem, he was breathless and seconds later he was extremely calm with his reply. Thats why i dont think it is always active. He seared his arm without it (as confirmed by Eddy Rivas) i think he needs to actively use it to reap any benefit. Its a cool idea but it presents issues: Too ambiguous in context of canon Too close to Ironwood's defining character Kinda boring sense its so literal. Will could have manifested in other ways. For example his will to protect manifested in a defensive semblance, his will to sacrifice lets him draw attacks to himself, his stubborn tendencies lets him harden substances, etc.
In psychology there are terms such as flow and a state of "zone". My view is that Ironwood can enter them at will which is extremely difficult for a human to achieve. This is a very flexible and incredible semblance. Rather than being strictly a decision making semblance, it likely is a semblance that gives him extreme superhuman levels of focus. Against the Aks in Vol 3 he managaed to succesfully shoot even the bots behind him without looking, thats a sign of hyperawareness
@Jessica Stimpson My former roommate of two years openly admitted to having ADHD and describing in depth the whole hyper-focus concept. I witnessed the condition on several occasions. The way our P/N here described the semblance, it fits pretty well. Hope none of that came across as insensitive.
I might apply this theme for my story. Since Azul has a wife named Sapphire who is with child and the child plays with her semblance of foresight and she always sees a boy and a girl, eluding to the possibility of twins... Spoiler alert; sapphire doesn't survive childbirth and only the younger twin will have survived, a boy named Oisin (meaning Fawn as in the color and animal). I might have the cause be a consequence of passive semblances
Qrows problem is also that he thinks anything bad that happens is his fault; when sometimes bad things just happen. Passive semblances also need aura which is why Clover’s good luck ran out when his aura broke and it couldnt protect him from his bad decisions. Also i dont feel good about any sort pre determination of semblances (and by extension) souls in RWBY, when they have made it a point to be against Destiny yknow. I think semblances are as predetemined as their weapons, like they are attracted to certain ones and depending on the training received adapt them to it. This sounds like the nature vs nurture debate in psychology, and the answer is neither.
Grechen Rainart was killed by a grimm or other circumstances during their training misson at Beacon. So if it was a grimm what killed her, what I think how that happened was because of Salem, she summoned her grimm in order to kill Grechen. Then, she will tell Hazel that Ozpin was the one responsible for it since her goal is to defet Ozpin over and over again and stop his plans. So, Hazel will put the blame on Ozpin for the death of his sister, and so, Salem will gain Hazel's trust on her and can manipulate him at doing what she wants, especially at taking Ozpin down. That's just my opinion on this one, hope it helped.
My OC semblance is passive and i wrote about in Fanfic but i will talk about it when you make the videos about the OC, Qrow's bad luck is the reason why his mother died and the tribe abandoned him qnd Raven might be his backstory or something similar to that, and yeah the curse of twins is possible
What if Hazel has misplaced anger due to us not knowing what Gretchen's eye color was. Witch means she could of had silver eyes like ruby. Now if you try to say that twins must have the same eye color when they are born it is not true that it is needed to be that way. So Salam could of had a member of her inner circle kill Gretchen while on the training mission.
So in RWBY there's basically one strong twin and one weak twin. I guess that explains why Raven is such a coward. Qrow's an amazing fighter. I like the idea of him being the strong one despite all his self-blaming. Interesting how Raven blames everyone else for her problems and Qrow blames himself for everything that happens to everyone else. 🤔
The Schnees share a familiar semblance, one that seem to be very versatile, Almost as if its a whole family of semblances that are available for Weiss to use
Qrows semblance does put a bit of a hole in the theory that semblance and aura are a remnant of magic that gets locked into one type of effect when you use it for the first time, cause there doesn't seem to be a very good reason to develop bad luck for those around you in the uterus. Unless both his and the book twin character were in danger of being absorbed by the other twin? Hers still makes more sense than his does if thats the case though
So a question I had for a potential OC I thought of before you uploaded this video is, what about chimeras (aka. chimeric twins)? Chimeras are people who, in the womb, absorbed their twin. If both twins had unlocked their semblances in the womb, then one twin was absorbed by the other, would the single person who was born have both semblances or would the semblance of the absorbed twin disappear? If there are two semblances then would that mean that there are two souls in the same body or would it just be one soul fueling both semblances? I posed a similar question in the Discord a while ago and we came to the conclusion that, without magic, it likely wouldn't be possible for one body to have two souls but I've still been thinking about it and how it would all work.
9:15 Not to mention the damn creator of them. (Remember back in vol 5?) Raven said, he created them. And had allies that followed *only* him in every academy.
I feel like some people have passive semblance but if you don’t then something life threatening will happen then you will have a semblance to save your life or to save some one else
Mr. Phoenix night thank you for answering my question of can a person from the Ruby series have to semblances even though it’s not like having two semblances but it still counts in my book. thank you and have nice weekend and happy first few days of October and fall.
I still want to connect Aura with eye color.. not that the eye color is the aura color but how it affects any situation or fight. Semblance whether passive or active is a heavy burden that is discovered then used to the advantage of fighting but your aura is automatically a part of you like your eyes are! I find it interesting that Pyrrha used her aura to unlock Jaunes (can anyone do that?) Only to find out that he has an enormous amount, I think it bonded her aura to his though
10:06 Or salem kills him. Take look at what happened to liomheart? Sure, he was an ally. But he became a possibe threat to her. (He was trying to reveal her existence. At least, that's what i think.)
Makes me wonder if Jaune's Semblance affected his mother then? Maybe she was able to deal with so many kids because she got a permanent boost from Jaune
@@Ultra_Instinct_Jaune_Arc The video discusses the idea of a Semblance having a permanent effect on someone while the person is in the womb. Gil took Aura from Jax and their mother, permanently. I'm asking if Jaune's Semblance, the ability to boost the effects of Aura, had any effect on his mother. Then half-joked about it being why she could deal with 8 kids.
Did they ever say how rare twins are in ruby cause what if the brother in womb was trying to eat his sister (something like that can happen irl) and her semblance came to be as a way to protect her. Like with nora maybe while her semblance was in presses of becoming something she was hit by lighting so it turned into 1 that would absorb lighting just to protect her body. Also i notice some of the chars semblance showed when their life is in danger for the first time. Semblance can be thing that gives everyone 1 save where the first tims your about to die it shows to save you.
The only think I feel this conflicts with is aura and semblance needing to be unlocked at all then if everyone essentially has them active in the womb... and since the power is predetermined wouldn’t it make discovering semblances much easier since it would be much more innate? And yeah there might be a certain disposition to having certian personality traits due to the nature of the soul, but soul is not simply static or unchanging. Like the twins and mother, every bond and interaction, every fight and brish with harm and death, and every redefining life moment that impacts a character fundamentally would have active changes and affects on the soul and semblence. Like given the nature of rwby, low sould crushing morale could be a death sentence in more ways than simply the grim as Aura reserves could be reduce as well as having less fine control of the semblance.
It is interesting. But I recall them confirming that Hazel does feel pain and has to actively choose to use his semblance. So I think that debunks the idea of it being passive. And Hazel's main motivation for hating Ozpin is because he invited her into the school early just like Ruby. She wasn't ready and got killed as a result when Ozpin persuaded her to join.
How is someone's manifestation I believe is the ability to conjure the best semblance possible in your current situation as like a second will to survive
Something like this idea might make an appearance in my OC Team story Which I've also choosen a musical theme for my OC Team story. If you ever heard of the anime Danganronpa 3 end of hope's peak academy the opening for the Future Arc "Dead or Lie" i choose that song as the Theme song of my OC Team story cause it has lyrics in English translation tie into the themes and even backstory of Team ARIA well as the villain of my OC Team story treats hunting down my main OC as a Game
1:13 might nora's semblence also be one of these? From all known uses of it she only seemed to be aware half of the time that she was going to get electrocuted.
You know how RWBY Characters have like Aura to protect them? Well, since they don't get like scars and cuts much like ever, I imagine this would happen when someone says blood.. Ruby: Blood? Yang: Blood?! Weiss: Blood. Blake: Why did you just say blood? Jaune: Wait, what is blood again? Ren: It's that red stuff that comes out when you get cut or hurt. Nora: Hurt? Oscar: Cut? Ruby: What are those words again? Where did you get them from? Qrow: What are you kids talking about now? Yang: We're trying to figure out these strange words that Ren and Ruby told us. Qrow: Which words? Weiss: Blood, cut, and hurt. Qrow: I know what they mean! They are those rare occurrences when you experience injuries. Ruby: Injuries? Blake: * groans and rolls eyes * Injuries. Oscar: Here we go...
Uh...Hazel could just have a lot more adrenaline during that moment in the battle of Haven. Just sayin. Plus I think this "even in the womb" is a once in a blue moon case. A semblance is just one part of the character is all I'm sayin.
Dangit, I already forgot the girl twin's name from the book. But other than that, I'm kind of wondering something now. How well do you think she would do in a fight with someone who's semblance is "aura depletion?" I ask because I made an oc a while back that was able to create a fog that when touched, it depleted a person's aura in order to help level the playing field. He's not syphoning it like she does. He's just making it run out. It just really makes me wonder who would win: Aura Syphon vs Aura Depletion?
I didn't think Hazel and Gretchen were twins? Is that ever confirmed? I always assumed she was younger than him since he kinda sees Gretchen in Emerald
Don't worry, she wouldn't have gone far. She'd be bonded to her mother after all. The real problem would be if she was bonded to Qrow and decided she didn't like how cold it was outside the womb and wanted to go back immediately. 😅
Slight correction, on Twitter Eddie corrected the information stated in the RWBY RTX panel about Ironwoods semblance being active after his aura broke. According to Eddie, his semblance could not be active due to his aura being broken, I was not aware of Eddie's correction before filming the video. Presumably this also applies to when the beam almost fell on Ruby in Volume 4, that it was just random chance instead of being due to Qrow's semblance, though it is implied in the show that the beam falling was due to Qrow's Misfortune. The rest of the theory about Passive semblances still could be the case though
Have you ever thought about the theory of The Bronwen Twins getting their ability to become birds from the Relic od Choice. I think they do because Ozpin in sesaon 5 talked about how they got their ability and he mentioned that he can do that once in awhile
I have a theory passive semblance can only develop on the non born bebé and active semblance on people that didn’t get a passive one and passive are really rare so that’s why they are so powerful and rare
Why do I get avatar vibes from this? When Zuko says “she was born lucky, I was lucky to be born”
I hope we get more info on Hazel and his sister, he’s probably one of the least insane of Salem’s group (when he’s not angry)
Agreed, I see him as a misunderstood villain.
He seems like the most rationally stable
I find it hypocritical of Hazel to join Salem's faction since she's the other half of why his sister is dead. Despite that it was Ozpin's fault to recruit youths into becoming huntsmen, Salem is the growing evil that forced him to do so. She's the Grimm queen who set off her creatures out in Remnant to terrorize and divide humanity. Even if Hazel's sister didn't join, it would still be inevitable for her to die one day from a Grimm attack or something worse
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Amuzer I feel like as some sort of reconciliation he’ll have to save emerald and Mercury in some way and forgive himself for not being able to save his sister kinda like a second chance he’ll get to not blame himself and move on from the past
Everyone seems to forget about Mercury's Father's semblance. That damn thing was permanent not temporary. My best guess is that it operated something like All For One, where he had to actively try to steal the target's semblance and actively try to give it back
I never realized the pattern involving twins until now. That is a scary realization overall.
I've always believed that Qrow's Semblance probably kill his mother when he and Raven were born, making him hated as a child and causing his to have such self hatred and such.
That's very possible sadly. Though I kinda doubt that the whole "even in the womb" is anything but a once in a blue moon
@@iceluvndiva21 Maybe she died not when he was born but shortly after his semblance was unlocked when he was a bit older, which is why he knows he has a bad luck semblance.
@@Ammy-q4w
Maybe.
The contents of the mission, which I do hope we find out more about, isn't too important to Hazel. It was the methods that Oz used to lure Gretchen to attend Beacon, implying that he wanted her to be one of his "chosen", similar in the same way as Ruby and Pyrrha. Perhaps even at the same age. After all, Gretchen "was a child". Now that we know that Hazel wasn't just some overbearing big brother (Ozpin sort of hints that was the case) but twins with Gretchen, this allows us to recontextualize that line and likely take it at face value. Gretchen was likely younger than the normal age of admittance.
I REALLY want a backstory on hazel he's one of my favorite characters
I agree, but we *desperately* need Cinder's backstory first
Yeah, how semblances affect someone’s biology is definitely a thought-provoking concept.
And yet even concepts like human cloning and genetic engineering haven’t been touched on in the World of Remnant so far, but that’s a whole different can of blindworms.
If you’re going to ask, the Greek hero Cadmus would be the perfect inspiration for a geneticist-type character in the Remnant-verse since, in Greek mythology, he created new life by sowing dragon’s teeth into the earth, giving birth to the city-state of Thebes in the process, and the phrase “to sow dragon’s teeth” is a metaphor for doing something that instigates any kind of dispute whether it’s a debate or a fight, which would fit well considering how cloning, human or otherwise, is already a highly debatable topic.
Think about it.
Mercury‘s a punk, but I still kinda hope him and Emerald get a bit of a redemption arc
Same here!
Or at least hazel and emerald I hate mercury
Her remember the first twins we've ever seen ?
Melanie and Miltia ?
Yeee
Now I'm worried about Jaune's sisters.
Why
@@Ultra_Instinct_Jaune_Arc Because he has twin sisters.
Yeah the only snag is that Passive semblances have been confirmed to deactivate after an aura break. Ironwood did not have Mettle active when he seared his arm off, Qrow likely only had an aura crack not an actual break against Tyrian (or it was just the Terrain being really iffy not his actual semblance that caused the beam to fall). Passive semblances may always be there, active to some small degree, as long as there is aura mind you, but I wonder if thats actually true.
I think the concept of passive may not mean always active, rather it means it effects a trait or condition of the user (kinda like a buff in an RPG vs an actual attack. Using harden in pokemon increases def and is passive vs using tackle which would be an active semblance)
This would mean the following:
Mettle does not make Ironwood stubborn he needs to willingly make his semblance augment his trait first. (I believe he does so by squinting)
Clover is always shown using a tool before the effect manifests (his iconic lapel flick) his only moment of good luck was the card game which could be attributed to qrow.
Hazel may have genuinely felt pain after Nora hit him because he was caught off guard by Weiss's summon and was not actually using his semblance in that precise moment. (I have not noticed any pattern in his semblance use yet)
Honestly, Qrow seems to be the only one who does not actively need to call upon his semblance to use it, though this may instead be attributed to him not understanding it. It could be that he does not know how to control his semblance at all (an active semblance that he randomly activates subconsciously in bursts or a passive semblance that he subconsciously turns on)
I know it sounds weird lol but the writers have been inconsistent with how semblances and aura actually work so its anyones guess. Ironwood blurred the line real hard because he has shown equal amounts of willpower and resolve with and without aura.
Semblances appear to augment or manifest in a way that complements the mindset of the hunter
James is stalwart to a fault
Glynda is a control freak
Pyrrha desires to bond with others
Qrow is pessimistic
Clover is optimistic
Ren chooses to stifle his emotions, etc. So "passive semblances" can be hard to understand from a viewer's perspective because some are so close to character traits, like Ironwood.
Can we get RT to hire Phoenix already?
4:39 Don't forget. Ren said some believe that there sembalnce determined the personality of someone. Or visa versa.
(I don't remember, the exact wording.)
And Blake said that a semblance was based on someone's greatest flaw back in Volume 2
@@Ammy-q4w I don't remember that..... When did that exactly take place?
The whole thing about Qrow and Raven's upbringing is the kind of thing I would like to see brought up if RT ever do a team STRQ spin off, or at least make some mention of it in a future RWBY volume.
I personally think that Jax's condition is a result of a prolonged exposure to Jill's ability, being so close to her 24/7.
I believe Ren mentioned in volume 5 that either people define their semblances or the other way around. I haven't read the book so I don't know about Jill's personality. If her character is fitting for someone who can take and give, then that's a point in favour of semblances being predetermined. But in some cases like Weiss it could just be hereditary, since such a powerful ability would fit being inherited from ancient royalty.
So the semblance as we've seen so far often becomes active when the person is in a desperate situation where one's own survival or (I guess I'm Jaune's case and possibly Ren's) another's survival is threatened and seems to be based on the exact need they have at that moment, whether to survive a lightning strike, hide emotion from Grimm or boost someone else's aura and healing as the examples we've seen so far. Gillian's survival could've been threatened in utero at some point during her development, especially being a twin, and as a developing foetus the only useful semblance that could be granted for survival would pretty much be something related to getting the nutrition and healing she needed to survive hence the aura siphoning. Maybe Jax's semblance would also have arisen in that same desperate moment if hers hadn't arisen first and stolen too much of his aura, as we saw he needed her to gift him some before he could discover his semblance. So I'm guessing something potentially threatened both of them and then Gillian's semblance activated to protect her even though it then did end up killing the person bearing them and indirectly threatening her survival but I guess her semblance was still doing its best with the power it had available I mean semblances don't generally activate on something non-viable.
Hazel was jack up on two different types of dust, I don't know that if it helped him heal/recover but until it ran it's course through his system it at least kept him from blacking out. Long enough to get to their air-ship and then rest on the trip back to Salem's domain it seems. Or since Hazel visited Ms. Malachite for info they could've also stopped at a "crime clinic" to get patched up before reporting to Salem.
Some semblances are really obvious which are the active ones, like Ruby who can turn her body into rose petals, Blake who can set a clone in her location, Weiss who can draw glyps on any surface. Is Yang passive, as she increases strength when taking damage as long she has aura to spare?
The one I think is wierd is Maria with the semblance of Preflexes as she could accurately predict everything like incoming bullets and smack them with the Alive and Death to block them EXCEPT after her aura was broken and Tock went and bite through her scythe. Her aura was broken at that point, so I wonder if that took away her semblance completely or just decreased her focus that much to the point she could get surprised by the bite and headbutt and slice through her eyes.
I'm pretty sure conjoined twins would each have their own semblance since they're two people that literally share a part of their body from birth. The effects of their semblances would depend on the semblances themselves & whether or not the set of conjoined twins underwent separation surgery.
I don't like ironwoods Semblance (especially because he was literally the first to give up basically)
I just thought Gretchen did not have a landing strategy
I heavily disagree. The writers have confirmed multiple times that semblances can't work if aura is broken, in particular they pointed out that Ironwood's "Mettle" was not active when he was freeing his trapped arm precisely because he had no aura.
Not to mention that I think Myers wasn't really caring about being consistent with what we know from the main show's continuity and the books shouldn't be considered canon.
Also we know for a fact that you can have your shield down when you still have aura available, as Ren and Ozpin say that it needs to be activated manually.
I've always thought that it is impossible for someone to entirely "run out" of aura. I think it is generated constantly, which would mean that any passive semblance would be permanently active. When an aura "breaks," the person's aura level probably just reached a low enough point that they are no longer able to protect themselves with a force field. A person's aura shield can reach zero while aura cannot reach zero until death. Semblances that require aura to use would no longer be usable after the force field breaks, and passive semblances would continue because they just decrease the person's aura regeneration speed a bit. This makes the most sense to me, and I think it clears up a lot of the show's contradictions about aura.
I don't agree with you entirely.(and technically the show too) cause the show definitely has it fair share of loop/plot holes regarding this.
An example would be Mercury:
He stated that his father stole his semblance, then Merc killed his father during their fight. Mercury should've gotten his semblance back then when either A) his father's aura broke in the fight or B) when his father died. How come it was permanent?
Obviously we don't know much about the situation and stuff. There always the possibility that Merc does have it but he just wholeheartedly believes he doesn't have it back. I hate that they state something but have something in the show that contradicts it.
@@seraph7934In Mercury's case, I'm pretty sure his father wouldn't need aura to keep someone's semblance. He would use aura to take a semblance and use aura to give a semblance back. He died with Merc's semblance, so he could no longer give it back.
It is also possible that Marcus was lying to Mercury. Maybe he never stole Merc's semblance and manipulated him into believing it was stolen. If this were the case, it would be true that Merc still has his semblance like you said.
My personal theory on whether semblances are predetermined or not is...yes and no. I believe they have a core that is predetermined but, a lot of room for meshing with whoever the person becomes. Qrow and Clover, for example, I would call having a luck "base semblance" that manifested in the form of misfortune and good luck respectively. Blake and Sun would likely have the same base semblance but, their personalities are distinct enough for the manifested power to be clearly different between the two. Ironwood could probably be considered to be in the same category as Emerald as both mess with the mind but, in clearly distinct ways.
I have a couple theories related to this myself.
The first is that maybe a person has the potential of one of two semblances, one being passive and the other being active, and it's just that there's a 20-80 chance of which a person awakens. (and maybe because twins are developed at the same time, that semblance chance is automatically split between them)*
The second is that maybe passive semblances are determined from conception but active semblances are in flux until awakened, meaning it is isn't a guaranteed by the soul.
*though I don't really know how that would work biologically for non-identical twins
An excellent theory! I agree. This theory also helps me with my OC, Turquo Mauve with his siren like voice.
His semblance Frozen Voice is a passive semblance, affecting people even when his simply talking.
While I can understand Hazel’s outlook at blaming Ozpin for his sister’s what I don’t get is how he goes about “getting his revenge” he in a sense is out there killing huntresses who very well could have been his sister and as we saw in Volume 5 he has no qualms with killing a female huntsman student who could be practically the same age his sister was
You have many rwby theories and its amazing it really is, and yay volume 8 is almost here! November 7th!
Clover semblance isn't a passive one because he activates his semblance when he touches his good luck charm.
I don’t know what to think of Ironwood’s Semblance. It’s basically just an emotion common to anyone
I think they explained it poorly. I believe it is a state of self hypnosis he needs to actively call upon. My view is that he pushes himself beyond human limits by focusing on goals.
For example when he decided to prioritize Amity over Mantle, everytime the kids talked to him he showed through body language he hated abandoning Mantle i any sense but then doubled down.
When he faced Salem, he was breathless and seconds later he was extremely calm with his reply.
Thats why i dont think it is always active. He seared his arm without it (as confirmed by Eddy Rivas) i think he needs to actively use it to reap any benefit.
Its a cool idea but it presents issues:
Too ambiguous in context of canon
Too close to Ironwood's defining character
Kinda boring sense its so literal. Will could have manifested in other ways. For example his will to protect manifested in a defensive semblance, his will to sacrifice lets him draw attacks to himself, his stubborn tendencies lets him harden substances, etc.
In psychology there are terms such as flow and a state of "zone". My view is that Ironwood can enter them at will which is extremely difficult for a human to achieve. This is a very flexible and incredible semblance. Rather than being strictly a decision making semblance, it likely is a semblance that gives him extreme superhuman levels of focus. Against the Aks in Vol 3 he managaed to succesfully shoot even the bots behind him without looking, thats a sign of hyperawareness
Sounds like he just has hyper-focus ADHD to me...
I have Aspergers which leads me to hyperfixation. Maybe its a subconscious reason as to why Ironwood is my favorite character
@Jessica Stimpson My former roommate of two years openly admitted to having ADHD and describing in depth the whole hyper-focus concept. I witnessed the condition on several occasions. The way our P/N here described the semblance, it fits pretty well. Hope none of that came across as insensitive.
I might apply this theme for my story. Since Azul has a wife named Sapphire who is with child and the child plays with her semblance of foresight and she always sees a boy and a girl, eluding to the possibility of twins... Spoiler alert; sapphire doesn't survive childbirth and only the younger twin will have survived, a boy named Oisin (meaning Fawn as in the color and animal). I might have the cause be a consequence of passive semblances
Qrows problem is also that he thinks anything bad that happens is his fault; when sometimes bad things just happen. Passive semblances also need aura which is why Clover’s good luck ran out when his aura broke and it couldnt protect him from his bad decisions.
Also i dont feel good about any sort pre determination of semblances (and by extension) souls in RWBY, when they have made it a point to be against Destiny yknow. I think semblances are as predetemined as their weapons, like they are attracted to certain ones and depending on the training received adapt them to it. This sounds like the nature vs nurture debate in psychology, and the answer is neither.
Grechen Rainart was killed by a grimm or other circumstances during their training misson at Beacon. So if it was a grimm what killed her, what I think how that happened was because of Salem, she summoned her grimm in order to kill Grechen. Then, she will tell Hazel that Ozpin was the one responsible for it since her goal is to defet Ozpin over and over again and stop his plans. So, Hazel will put the blame on Ozpin for the death of his sister, and so, Salem will gain Hazel's trust on her and can manipulate him at doing what she wants, especially at taking Ozpin down.
That's just my opinion on this one, hope it helped.
My OC semblance is passive and i wrote about in Fanfic but i will talk about it when you make the videos about the OC, Qrow's bad luck is the reason why his mother died and the tribe abandoned him qnd Raven might be his backstory or something similar to that, and yeah the curse of twins is possible
What if Hazel has misplaced anger due to us not knowing what Gretchen's eye color was. Witch means she could of had silver eyes like ruby. Now if you try to say that twins must have the same eye color when they are born it is not true that it is needed to be that way. So Salam could of had a member of her inner circle kill Gretchen while on the training mission.
That’s a possibility
7:13 .....
*Facepalms.*
Why did i never make the connection?
Hazel on the thumbnail:
That face you make when your parents walk in on you doing something stupid
So in RWBY there's basically one strong twin and one weak twin. I guess that explains why Raven is such a coward. Qrow's an amazing fighter. I like the idea of him being the strong one despite all his self-blaming. Interesting how Raven blames everyone else for her problems and Qrow blames himself for everything that happens to everyone else. 🤔
The Schnees share a familiar semblance, one that seem to be very versatile,
Almost as if its a whole family of semblances that are available for Weiss to use
Qrows semblance does put a bit of a hole in the theory that semblance and aura are a remnant of magic that gets locked into one type of effect when you use it for the first time, cause there doesn't seem to be a very good reason to develop bad luck for those around you in the uterus. Unless both his and the book twin character were in danger of being absorbed by the other twin? Hers still makes more sense than his does if thats the case though
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So a question I had for a potential OC I thought of before you uploaded this video is, what about chimeras (aka. chimeric twins)? Chimeras are people who, in the womb, absorbed their twin. If both twins had unlocked their semblances in the womb, then one twin was absorbed by the other, would the single person who was born have both semblances or would the semblance of the absorbed twin disappear? If there are two semblances then would that mean that there are two souls in the same body or would it just be one soul fueling both semblances? I posed a similar question in the Discord a while ago and we came to the conclusion that, without magic, it likely wouldn't be possible for one body to have two souls but I've still been thinking about it and how it would all work.
I'm sorry, but I can't hear the name "Gretchen" without thinking of Faust and a particular anime based on it.
9:15 Not to mention the damn creator of them.
(Remember back in vol 5?)
Raven said, he created them. And had allies that followed *only* him in every academy.
I feel like some people have passive semblance but if you don’t then something life threatening will happen then you will have a semblance to save your life or to save some one else
Mr. Phoenix night thank you for answering my question of can a person from the Ruby series have to semblances even though it’s not like having two semblances but it still counts in my book. thank you and have nice weekend and happy first few days of October and fall.
I still want to connect Aura with eye color.. not that the eye color is the aura color but how it affects any situation or fight. Semblance whether passive or active is a heavy burden that is discovered then used to the advantage of fighting but your aura is automatically a part of you like your eyes are! I find it interesting that Pyrrha used her aura to unlock Jaunes (can anyone do that?) Only to find out that he has an enormous amount, I think it bonded her aura to his though
10:06 Or salem kills him.
Take look at what happened to liomheart? Sure, he was an ally. But he became a possibe threat to her.
(He was trying to reveal her existence. At least, that's what i think.)
Makes me wonder if Jaune's Semblance affected his mother then? Maybe she was able to deal with so many kids because she got a permanent boost from Jaune
Wait i dont get it. explain
@@Ultra_Instinct_Jaune_Arc The video discusses the idea of a Semblance having a permanent effect on someone while the person is in the womb. Gil took Aura from Jax and their mother, permanently. I'm asking if Jaune's Semblance, the ability to boost the effects of Aura, had any effect on his mother. Then half-joked about it being why she could deal with 8 kids.
@@onyxrose4349 oh ok that makes sense lol
Wow ur back I hope u had a nice break
I did, thank you! Took some time to recharge before Volume 8 starts 😊
This mans videos go hard
Did they ever say how rare twins are in ruby cause what if the brother in womb was trying to eat his sister (something like that can happen irl) and her semblance came to be as a way to protect her. Like with nora maybe while her semblance was in presses of becoming something she was hit by lighting so it turned into 1 that would absorb lighting just to protect her body. Also i notice some of the chars semblance showed when their life is in danger for the first time. Semblance can be thing that gives everyone 1 save where the first tims your about to die it shows to save you.
The only think I feel this conflicts with is aura and semblance needing to be unlocked at all then if everyone essentially has them active in the womb... and since the power is predetermined wouldn’t it make discovering semblances much easier since it would be much more innate? And yeah there might be a certain disposition to having certian personality traits due to the nature of the soul, but soul is not simply static or unchanging. Like the twins and mother, every bond and interaction, every fight and brish with harm and death, and every redefining life moment that impacts a character fundamentally would have active changes and affects on the soul and semblence. Like given the nature of rwby, low sould crushing morale could be a death sentence in more ways than simply the grim as Aura reserves could be reduce as well as having less fine control of the semblance.
I wonder what kind of semblances the previous Maiden Host had and Ozpins/Salem's daughters could have been if they weren't killed?
I like to think Robin's Semblance was kinda passive when she was younger like didn't have control over it
It is interesting. But I recall them confirming that Hazel does feel pain and has to actively choose to use his semblance.
So I think that debunks the idea of it being passive.
And Hazel's main motivation for hating Ozpin is because he invited her into the school early just like Ruby. She wasn't ready and got killed as a result when Ozpin persuaded her to join.
Passive semblance is pretty good to if it's work even after aura break
How is someone's manifestation I believe is the ability to conjure the best semblance possible in your current situation as like a second will to survive
Something like this idea might make an appearance in my OC Team story
Which I've also choosen a musical theme for my OC Team story. If you ever heard of the anime
Danganronpa 3 end of hope's peak academy the opening for the Future Arc
"Dead or Lie" i choose that song as the Theme song of my OC Team story cause it has lyrics in English translation tie into the themes and even backstory of Team ARIA well as the villain of my OC Team story treats hunting down my main OC as a Game
It's kinda weird, Gillian has basically the exact Semblance I wanted for my OC
1:13 might nora's semblence also be one of these? From all known uses of it she only seemed to be aware half of the time that she was going to get electrocuted.
You know how RWBY Characters have like Aura to protect them? Well, since they don't get like scars and cuts much like ever, I imagine this would happen when someone says blood..
Ruby: Blood?
Yang: Blood?!
Weiss: Blood.
Blake: Why did you just say blood?
Jaune: Wait, what is blood again?
Ren: It's that red stuff that comes out when you get cut or hurt.
Nora: Hurt?
Oscar: Cut?
Ruby: What are those words again? Where did you get them from?
Qrow: What are you kids talking about now?
Yang: We're trying to figure out these strange words that Ren and Ruby told us.
Qrow: Which words?
Weiss: Blood, cut, and hurt.
Qrow: I know what they mean! They are those rare occurrences when you experience injuries.
Ruby: Injuries?
Blake: * groans and rolls eyes * Injuries.
Oscar: Here we go...
It raises questions about Miltia and Melanie Malachite, do they also have some sort of passive semblance or even any semblance?
10:24 I really want to see those two again.
Interesting theory
Uh...Hazel could just have a lot more adrenaline during that moment in the battle of Haven. Just sayin. Plus I think this "even in the womb" is a once in a blue moon case. A semblance is just one part of the character is all I'm sayin.
Or one that can give the greatest benefit to the person that is wielding it these are the two ways I think aura manifest this into a semblance
Dangit, I already forgot the girl twin's name from the book. But other than that, I'm kind of wondering something now. How well do you think she would do in a fight with someone who's semblance is "aura depletion?"
I ask because I made an oc a while back that was able to create a fog that when touched, it depleted a person's aura in order to help level the playing field. He's not syphoning it like she does. He's just making it run out. It just really makes me wonder who would win: Aura Syphon vs Aura Depletion?
Could Maria's Preflexes fall under the passive category as well?
I think Preflexes would be passive, good call!
I wonder if we will meet some characters who are twins that a good people and somehow help team Rwby..?
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Jaune has twin sisters as well... does that mean they're cursed?
I didn't think Hazel and Gretchen were twins? Is that ever confirmed? I always assumed she was younger than him since he kinda sees Gretchen in Emerald
I always gonna be here
How does this theory affect Jaunes sisters who are twins?
To be fair, childbirth is a traumatic experience for the child. Don't it take a major life threatening event to activate a semblance?
What book was he talking about?
There u r. R the results of the tournament and music polls ready
If twins with normal auras activate semblances in the womb does that mean Raven simply teleported out of the womb? 🤔
Don't worry, she wouldn't have gone far. She'd be bonded to her mother after all. The real problem would be if she was bonded to Qrow and decided she didn't like how cold it was outside the womb and wanted to go back immediately. 😅
Sorry I'm late. I was...
*s h o w e r i n g*
(And finally! An upload!)
Cool interesting vid
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Keep it up
Jack and Jill Hanzel and gretel jax and Jillian hazel and Gretchen
Nice new video 😊😊😊
Waite is hazel and his sister are tiwnes
Man what happened to you
Took a brief break to deal with a few things, all good now though! 😊
Naruto reference
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