Bommel
Don't let me detain you.
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Pretty sure, regular gunpowder should still exists on Remnant.
Dust seems at least expensive enough that people would try to steal it, and gunpowder would be extremely cheap by comparison, and pretty easy to make yourself if you have the chemicals required (which likely wouldn't even be that hard to get if it's somewhat similar to RL).
Sure, gunpowder might not be as powerfull, or have the additonal effects that Dust has, but for shooting some normal bullets, or making some smaller explosives, it could effective enough.
There are enough pennyless rebels/terrorists, bandits and other under-equipped fighters that they would absolutely use any effective enough alternative they could get their hands on.
Some members of the Branwen Tribe literally have knives taped to their guns, like Shay D. Mann has a crude pistol cobbled together from different parts (and is constantly jamming) and a knife blade literally taped to the handle (a Branwen Tribe member in the background has done the same with her shotgun and attaching a regular knife in a bayonet configuration).
You can't tell me those low ranking members have enough expensive Dust for all their firearms, but can't somehow steal better weapons to use it with.
What if Jaune's Semblance didn't just amplify his own Aura and that of others, but could amplify ANYTHING, in a way that can be construed as "better than it was before"?
So Jaune could temporarily enhance things like strength, speed, durability, reflexes, perception, intellect, precision, etc. instead of just aura and Semblances.
Perhaps he could even enhance physical characteristics, like the explosive power of dust/gunpowder or a bomb, the potency of unique Dust effects, the sharpness of a blade, impact force of hammers, someone's height/size, someone's bust size, or the productivity of mammary glands?
Alternatively, what if Jaune's Semblance cause him to passively to slowly permanently enhance everything of everything/anyone around him?
This wouldn't do much of anything in a fight, or have any noticeable effect immediately, but anything that is his presents for a long time will be enhanced more and more, with it building up quadratically over time because the enhancement has more to work with.
This means that his teammates and friends who spend a large amount of time hanging out with him will gradually experience everything about them becoming better.
It also means that, because Jaune is always within the radius of this effect, from the moment his Aura and Semblance was awakened, he has always been growing stronger.
This idea could also be combined with the first idea, where everything around him is slowly permanently enhanced to be somehow "better than before".
Footnote; according to the wiki, Jaune can use his Semblance to amplify his own Aura, not just those of others, but it doesn't really specify what the effects of that are (though there is a picture with the text "Jaune's enhanced Aura shield.", but that is pretty vague in what the effects really are beyond his regular abnormally massive Aura reserves).
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