Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-74.101.236.56-20170321065847/@comment-28522425-20170422005703

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

3) Qrow did not have 0% Aura. Low Aura, definitely, but not 0%. This idea is based on how Ruby also had her "Aura sparks" when Tyrian was kicking her ass, yet she clearly still had at least some Aura left to continue fighting.

So Qrow had enough Aura for his Semblance to keep working, but it was very low. Low enough that, in his moment of sheer idiocy, after saving Ruby from Gankplank, Tyrian thrusted at him, and Qrow had enough Aura remaining to about being pierced, but not enough to completely block the attack, hence why he still got grazed by the stinger.

The same idea could be used for Tyrian's dismemberment. He also had a very low Aura %, and what Ruby did, in the place she did it, dealt enough damage to reduce it to 0, and still had enough leftover damage to cut the tail (which wouldn't be hard, it's a scythe so sharp it cuts trees vs a scorpion tail). About those Aura sparks, I assume that those occur occasionally when your Aura is hit. I also think that when an attack causes your Aura to flicker like that, then maybe the strike or slash that did it could lieve behind minor injuries.

Maybe Aura is something loke an "inner power", that you can manifest as a protective if you have a certain, very low amount, but you can still use your Semblance with the Aura left inside you if said shield is broken.

I used to think that the super strenght that the characters had was something that came with the Aura, but then we saw the Tyrian fight and how they kept lifting their weapons and jumping around, even though they apoarently had no Aura left.

So maybe the Aura really could be an "inner power" instead of a barrier, this power being what gives the characters strenght, and allows them to use their Semblance? or all the characters just naturally have Charles Atlas Superpower?