Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24032889-20171204052500/@comment-86.128.205.81-20171230212844

Sorry for those 1st couple of comments, I've been sitting here trying to figure out what was preventing me from posting on this site. But anyway

Perhaps on the other hand a certain retconning of M&K's writing to instead read: ‘aura only visibly sheens over if broken during its active use’ would be better, as now we're under the blissful illusion that it hasn’t devolved into simple plot armour the only way it can be rationalised for purposes of fanfiction (for OC stories especially) is basically

Like what willpower is to a Green Lantern ring, the more a character focuses their aura over an area of the body, the higher its damage protection is elevated beyond the baseline.

I mean it’d explain all the consistencies like Coco, Sienna, Sun, Blake, Shay D Mann etc all being one-shotted/injured wounded without their shields visibly shattering since you could argued in any of those scenarios they each might’ve been distracted to some degree (although that’s really pushing it when you’re putting in more thought than the writers