Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-4010415-20151212180738

Master Moridin wrote: I'm pretty sure the shimmering was to visually show us his aura depleting.

The semblance sound effect doesn't play till Mercury says Blondie.

Edit:  Does set up an odd timing of events though ^^^^ Yeah, I think the shimmering was supposed to show us that his Aura was completely depleted. We didn't get a view of Weiss when her Aura hit 0%.

The feeling I got from it was basically when your shield hits 0 in Halo. Miles and Kerry and such have described Aura as being sorta like the shields in Halo, after all. They can be reduced, but they can be replenished naturally and they're not your HP.

I rewatched the episode, and I didn't hear the same sound effect from Fake Yatsuhashi, so... But I thought I heard a whistle noise during the fight...? It was faint... I don't even remember at what part I heard it. I was just happily rewatching the fight now that it's less skippy for me (I'm having some laptop issues today).

Also, guys, Mercury was definitely in on it. "Why did she attack me?!!" He was seriously hamming it up there, trying to play the poor innocent victim of some violence-crazed opponent. When he walked away from Yang acting victorious, that was just an act. When she got back up, he didn't look surprised, he didn't frown, his face was kinda neutral with a slight note of "Here we go."

By the way, anyone else notice that the music at the very end of the episode is a slow piano tune of I Burn?