Chaoswind
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That's not how the burden of proof works. If power rings are incapable of matter alteration, than it simply will never come up: It won't be specifically denied in the story. There are fare too many abilities that are never denied that you don't assume the ring gives.
For example: can the ring let someone teleport into the real world and talk to the author? No? Well, it's never specifically said to be incapable of it, so it must be.
Obviously, that's going a bit far, but the point still stands that the burden of proof is on showing that there's something that proves they CAN perform matter alteration, not that they can't, and simply saying that it can do stronger things doesn't necessarily mean everything below that is thus possible (for example, telepathy: telepathy is lower-tier than time travel, but you still need proof the ring could perform telepathy before saying it's canon it can do that).
For the record, I don't know whether the ring can or can't do that, I'm just pointing out the fallacy of trying to shift the burden of proof to "well, can you prove that ISN'T the case?"
What is this all about? If rings can transmute matter? They explicitly can in this fic and has been done in several episodes... What are you guys even arguing about?
Edit: If I am missing the context then it has to be a chain argument with Vaermina, the rings have transmuted matter several times and are only limited by energy requirements and cost. We have had episodes in with EXPLICITLY normal air is transmuted to knockout gas, this is NOT in dispute, nor it requires exhaustive DC canon sources, its been done to hell and back in the canon of this fic thus the capability is NOT in question.
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