Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.1.235.131-20171022191243/@comment-31098022-20171023120257

73.Anon.52 wrote:

I doubt it they're only 80 years into a peace festival... cheating probably had severe enough consequences no-one wanted to... Cinder and co just got away with it because said consequences were their goal.

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Cheating tends to always have severe consequences but people do it anyway.

Also I'm not saying be obvious. Also there are many ways that someone could cheat.

Take Pyrrha and Glynda for example who have similar semblances. They could alter the fight just slightly like Pyrrha does with her own.

There are tons of ways a semblance could lead to cheating that I could see them wanting to find a way to block semblances to help with the festival and contain prisoners.

Plus as long as you don't make it obvious you couldn't get caught.

It's very likely to have a teammate with a semblance that can work at a distance wanting to help their team get glory in the audience.

Well I think that cheating is way more likely than a ref killing contestants.

Assuming that when Ozpin enters a new body he gets access to the owners semblance that means he gets a first hand experience on how many semblances tick.

Plus he could just ask people about how their semblances work.

Except psychology wasn't always a thing in our world. Semblances and aura was always something in theirs. Maybe there is a certain type of dust that can disrupt aura flow.

I'm not asking for a scientific way to stop aura and semblances though that could exist as why wouldn't Atlas want that I'm just saying that it should be probable that there is some way to stop it.