Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.1.235.131-20171022191243/@comment-26018514-20171024181202

Salvince wrote

how are hallucinations brought on by a passive semblance unblockable? Its still created by an aura and propelled by some form of force, despite it being passive, the skill should be able to be blocked. Just because it wasnt a physical attack doesnt mean they couldnt have prevented it and in fact should have been prevented. If you can transfer, replicate, or whatever with an aura, then you should certainly be able to block a mental attack brought on by a semblance and in fact could detect it. You simply calling it "unblockable" doesn't mean its unblockable and shouldve been easily preventable. 1. It isn't passive, using it requires focus, if it didn't everyone around Emerald would be halucinating at all times(or at least 1 person would and she would be unable to affect two people at all)

2.  I'm not saying it is unblockable... I'm saying the possibility exists and you have no way to account for it with your theory, nor do you have any actual evidence towards it being blockable... Penny's aura being attached and a machine that can move something which generates aura from point A to point B using tubes of material does not mean you can block aura, let alone a semblance using such material, nor that such material can be utilized in a see-through barrier.

3. Semblances use aura they are not aura and act upon the world and react differently to stimuli than aura does... if they were the same then magnetism would be no different than telekinesis, and abilities like Nora's resistence to electricity would be trainable with normal aura. Aura is not what propels them once they change mediums, so blocking aura would still not prevent their interference unless you blocked ALL MEDIUMS.