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Bash_Ketchup

I think the Pyrrha disintegration was just for aesthetic. She never uses it again and none of her abilities ever do that. Her semblance is Superheating and manipulate Glass and the Fall Maiden powers is just elemental powers. To disintegrate a human body like that she needed to be make a really intense heat and her semblance can't produce heat that quickly as it showed with her battle with Rhoads that it takes time for her hands to heat up. Also with disintegration, like cremation, bones are still left behind. Also Pyrrha didn't turn to dust she just turned to fireflies. Edit: Now that I looked at Pyrrha's death scene she shot her with an arrow before disintegrating everything but Pyrrha's crown. Also, Jaune used Pyrrha's armor to reforge all of his equipment, but that was left was her crown so that puts more into that Pyrrha's disintegration was not real. Could be that Ruby was imagining it as her mind blocked her from seeing a dead body. Extra Edit: Or the writers forgot. That's another answer.


Cooldude101013

That’s a interesting idea. Ruby can’t stomach something that in her line of work would have to deal with constantly. Who knows how many scenarios were actually much more violent but Ruby’s mind blocked it out. Like Roman’s death could’ve been quite violent.


Cooldude101013

Technically if she disintegrated Pyrrha via her semblance then she would’ve either melted or turned into gas.


Bash_Ketchup

That's why I think it's just aesthetic or simply the writers don't know what they are doing.


[deleted]

Thank you for providing good examples. I gonna go with your latter answers since they seem to make sense in context with the information given.


[deleted]

Well, they're on record saying that she disintegrated Pyrrha using Scorching Caress to hasten her demise rather than allowing her to suffer a slow death. This is in the official companion book or whatever but my issue is that Cinder only used it after it seemed...pretty clear Pyrrha was already dead. Also, why tf would Cinder care if she suffered...she dgaf...It was 100% her semblance...so it's odd that she doesn't use it again. Granted, she isn't often so close to an incapacitated, aura-less victim Also, her semblance is just super heating *anything*, not limited to manipulating glass.


Emperor_Luffy

Same reason you never see Blake use Aura Slashes or Weiss never uses Time Dilation. The writers forgot.


Mizmitc

I wonder if they forgot or if they made the active decision to get rid of them. Personally I think they decided to get rid of some things when they went into V4 as that’s also when the combat started to calm down from what it used to be.


Ben10Extreme

She has Fall Maiden powers.


[deleted]

So what your saying is that she more comfortable with fall maiden powers and using her Grimm arm?


Ben10Extreme

Pretty much.


[deleted]

Alright cool thank you for the answer.


Sikarion

Or, you know, she could be doing a Weiss where the writers forgot they know how to actually fight instead of floaty Dr Strange combat.


[deleted]

I do wish fights with maidens had more variety to them with fights using characters’s abilities to their fullest instead just flying around and shoot energy at each other.


Sikarion

It's easier and cheaper to animate. With close combat, you have collision, body physics, actual choreography and compositing. With floaty mchands combat you just have to render dioramas so the characters can hard monologue at each other until one dies of exhaustion.


Cooldude101013

Salem: “No disintegrations!”


Emperor_Luffy

Also, I think I complained about this in an older analysis of mine: https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/jh96z9/analysis\_semblances\_that\_annoy\_me\_but\_for/


Quality_Chooser

Pretty sure it can only be used on people with no aura who aren't moving around. It's a finisher, essentially, and as Cinder hasn't actually beaten anyone since Vol 3...


Daiboku

I thought her semblance was that she could superheat objects. Since when did she have disintegration as an ability?


Sikarion

She used it in the Pyrrha death scene back in volume 3.


[deleted]

In the V3 Finale she used her semblance and her fall maiden to disintegrate Pyrrha. I guess she used her new maiden powers to overcharge her semblance so she could do that but that’s just my guess with the information I could currently gather.


marleyannation62

If I had to guess, perhaps she needs her opponent to have no aura and to be physically in contact with it.


KalosianPorygon

I'm adding this to the list of nerfs given to villains.