Okay, so to hopefully lighten the mood a bit after all the newfound sympathetic angst we’ve been subjected to this last episode, I thought it might be fun to just gush for a bit about how completely, utterly, BUSTED Ruby’s semblance potentially is.
First off, Evasion. Forget Blake’s ‘drop a clone and shift a few meters’, whenever Ruby goes into ‘Petal form’, it is basically impossible to actually hit her. Just about any kind of attack is just going to phase through her harmlessly.
Next, good luck keeping Ruby IN or OUT of just about anywhere. Does your supposedly IMPENETRABLE vault and/or prison have any opening wider than A MOLECULE? Because if so, too bad. This girl is finding a way a in and out.
Finally there is the whole deconstructing and reconstructing matter at a molecular level thing. Because that’s kind of a big deal. Like what if Ruby figured out how to reconstruct objects a bit... differently than how she deconstructed them? Even if we assume that Ruby could only do this on objects she is very familiar with, we could get crazy stuff like Ruby altering her clothing on the fly (what if THAT’S how she gets her Vacuo outfit?), or maybe in a battle at some point Crescent Rose is broken into a dozen pieces. One petal burst later and she’s good as new.
And that’s just the reconstructing angle. Right now Ruby can selectively choose what or who she brings into the proverbial slipstream with her. Imagine if she also figured out how to selectively choose what she brings out of it? Put another way, what if Ruby figured out how to deconstruct something, and then just... NOT reconstruct it afterwards?
Ruby’s semblance is right up there with Pyrrha’s in how completely broken it can potentially be. Right now, the only thing holding it back is simple lack of experience, which Ruby is only going to get more of.
Simply put, I think we are definitely going to see Ruby pull of some absolutely insane stuff with her semblance in the future. And it is going to be AWESOME.
















