Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20170705210718/@comment-27447621-20170801212343

Even if every other part of the person's Aura would provide protection, most people in RWBY don't wear armor. That leaves a layer of clothing, and then you're cutting flesh, sinew and bone. Heck, a single good cut could end the person's ability to fight back or run (cutting the tendons in the wrist or knee, for example) while a better cut could end the fight in one freaking cut. No. That makes your character so absurdly overpowered.

Do you see the problem?

As far as Akane, tread with caution. The rarer and more powerful you make something your main character has (Anthem, in this case), the closer you stray to Mary Sue territory. And the fact that Taizai Akane is the only person who's figured this out is contrived at best. And the ability you've given Anthem specifically reads like this boost is permanent. Meaning that in one cut, the user could do so much damage that, like Adam Taurus, it cleaves through the Aura entirely, but unlike Adam, it could do it from full. Is that the case with Anthem?