Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160617232120/@comment-26397825-20160815223540

Are you trying to say Cardin has a mass less than Jaune? He was beating Jaune up with no worries before Jaune's semblance activated (and we were told very specifically that it was the first glimpse of Jaune's semblance).

The aura shield is a very different thing to the flash of light that resulted in Cardin being pushed back. For one, the aura shield doesn't push or reflect the attacker, as seen when Ren used it and the Taijutsu kept pushing on the shield. For two, the aura shield does not create a flash of light like that. It creates a solid barrier of aura that is visible, but the light does not flash for a moment before subsiing. It is constant.

So, Jaune's semblance was shown in that scene in Forever Fall, and it is not a shield like Ren, Cinder and Amber's aura shields. It may be a deflectionary semblance, or a rebound semblance that makes the enemy feel the knockback effect rather than himself, however.