Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3146930-20140427040734/@comment-24198837-20140428055026

First off, I'd like to thank you for thinking about all us lazy people ^^

Anyway, I could see this. As you said, it is rather odd that most people link both Semblance and Aura to the soul, when they have almost opposite effects (One is universial, the other specific). It would be really cool to see all of this linked to a mutation, both so we get to see that state of "conventional" science in the RWBY-verse (DNA analysis, lab work, and the like) and so that I can make some Magneto puns with Pyrrha.

However, I can think of a way for Semblance to still be linked to the soul. Look at it this way:

Aura comes from having a soul. We know this. All the benefits of aura are simply harnessing one's soul-energy. This is why aura functions mostly the same for everyone, because a soul is a soul. Semblance, however, could come from mastery of your soul, in particular. Pyrrha explains (essentially) that eveyone's soul is different. Semblance could arise from those differences. Aura is the same because everyone has a soul; Semblances are different because everyone's soul is unique. In other words, Semblance is Aura, just a more specific form. This is unlikely, as Monty has made it a point to distinguish between the two, but it's a possibility.