2A/N: So, this is the first in a little series I want to start across fandoms where I just nitpick stuff while using hindsight and write a little about my own ideas or whatever. This is mostly to just get my creative juices flowing, keep myself from being lazy. This is still part of my beginning work so when you review … make sure to absolutely destroy me in the reviews! I'll grow best under hardship not coddling.
Nitpick #1: Special Little Snowflake
So, the Schnee family semblance … someone was huffing something in Rooster Teeth when they made this thing. It breaks the rule of only having one power as a semblance (but with M&K's track record that probably won't be the last) and the writers just seem to willingly throw whatever power they want at these glyphs.
I mean for god's sake, there's a fucking time manipulation glyph and a necromancy-summon-the-dead glyph! OH GEEZ, THOSE TWO SURE DO FIT TOGETHER!
And I already hear what some of you are saying, that she has different powers because she uses dust. Okay, I've heard that theory, seen the visual evidence that she's probably using lightning dust to turn her glyphs into time-dilatating glyphs. But let me ask you, how the hell do you get time manipulation out of lightning and magic scribbles that you can either walk on or make things move faster? Because I couldn't think of any good reason.
Not to mention it's an inheritable semblance, which no one in the show brings up and was probably forgotten about by the writers. What are the rules of inheritable semblances? Do they cause family members to have similar personalities? Can radically different members of these families have problems using them?
Who knows?
Still on the topic of the Schnee semblance, it's pretty much a big metaphor for how Weiss is privileged from birth, down to her literal soul. She easily has the most versatile and arguably powerful semblance on Remnant, giving her all kinds of control over the battle with her motion controlling glyphs and being able to literally summon Stand versions of anything she's ever killed.
Does that include people? I really want to know.
Where was I? Oh yeah, the metaphor. So, from the snowflake design of the glyphs, being a kekkei genkai, and belonging to the richest people on Remnant, you can clearly see how I came up with the name of this chapter. I'd like to say that it was clever writing on someone's part to make Weiss' very soul-manifestation a sign of her privileged background and how it's a part of her, but since no one has brought up her semblance much with her character development like I have, I'm more inclined to think it was a fluke.
But when they do link Weiss' semblance with her character growth it's with the most out of place power in her power bag, the summoning. Which, let me remind you, she literally becomes so overdependent on that she forgets how to fight without it by the end of volume 5. That's why Vernal kicks her ass so hard in that fight, if a video game enemy won't stop charging up for a big attack you punish them for it.
I've heard people say that Vernal is Weiss' worst match up, GTFO! That's only true because anyone smart in Volume 5 is more overpowered than Saitama, and intelligence is fleeting in that volume.
Finally, I have to wonder what the hell kind of guy the first Schnee was. Because if a semblance is a manifestation of your personality – shut the fuck up Ren – then was the first Schnee such a Gary Stu that he just manifested the semblance that let him do anything? I can already imagine how the canon would make it look:
"How's it going Scrooge McSchnee?"
"Pretty good, Bob. I unlocked my semblance today!"
"Really? Cool! What's it do?"
"I create these sigils that I can put anywhere and walk on, also they give me telekinetic control over things. I can also put dust into them for perfect dust control and can also manipulate time by using lightning dust. Plus, it lets me create ghost copies of whatever I've killed for my own private army; I can even control their size! And, I don't know how, but I can already tell that any descendants of mine are going to have the exact same powers I have."
"…Dude, you got to give up on those mines of yours. The dust is fucking with your head."
They're called glyphs not sigils, my bad, but who gives a fuck?
But you know what I really want to see? I want to see Weiss summoning that ghost Grimm that possess stuff (a geist?) and using them to possess objects ranging from cars to computers. Some real Danny Phantom shit.
Anyway, that's about all I have for the nitpicking part, now for the hindsight part where I say what I would do with the Schnee semblance.
So, if the show is going to make Weiss' semblance a big, blatant metaphor for Schnee privilege than I might as well do something to make it unique. I literally remember pondering this in a college lecture of mine when I came up with the idea that the Schnee family semblance shouldn't be glyphs, but 'inheritance'.
The first Schnee would be a man who seemingly never unlocked his semblance but was strong and skilled enough to make a name for himself. His child would go on to have a semblance that would involve glyphs that you could walk on, but the grandchild also unlocked those glyphs with the added ability of manipulating the velocity of whatever is on them.
That's when the family would realize that the OG Schnee had a semblance that was not only inherited, but collected the semblances of the past generations too, each semblance manifested as a different glyph. The ghost one would probably have been a weird fellow, but his/her semblance is still stupidly useful.
That's basically the abridged version of my background for the Schnee semblance, and yeah, it's basically a copy of One for All only even more special, but I'm trying to fix it while still following the accepted rules of the show.
I say 'accepted' because, well, volume 5 …
Part of the reason I put this idea of how I'd like the Schnee semblance to work is because I hope other people take the idea and use it in interesting ways within their own stories. What semblance does Weiss contribute? Is she struggling to find her own semblance/identity outside of the Schnee semblance/name? What other powers could her ancestors have left her?
There's a lot of potential in it, more than I can bring out alone.
That wraps up what I have to say about the Special Little Snowflake semblance, next time I'll talk about my personal favorite semblance, Ren's! Until then leave any of the following: review, fav, alert, criticism, flame, personal attack, or nothing.
A/N: Tell me if I screwed up any grammar or spelling, I'm always looking to improve that stuff.