Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.1.235.131-20171022191243/@comment-71.1.235.131-20171023084435

Knightmareace wrote: They've definitely had problems with cheating before.

Yep that is very interesting. I wish someone would ask that at a Q&A but it's probably a spoiler question.

People with certain semblances like Blake or those who haven't discovered their semblances would be easy to contain but how would you contain someone like Pyrrha or Weiss for example.

There must be away.

After all they felt confident sticking Roman in a cell.

Plus semblances are a private matter so I guess you would treat all those with unknown semblances like they have a semblance that would facilitate escape. Well you see my thought is this:  They have enough recorded history to recall a lot of semblances, I dont think they'd be THAT unknown to the community. I personally see it as a large plot flaw to just assume that "no such semblance" is recorded despite the much recalled history of their world. And as I see it: All the semblances work as some form of projection and leaves a trail back to an aura. The aura itself is blocked from the shield. I know there are many arguments to make like I stated before, but it just seems too convenient to make it a flaw in the protection system. Cheating clearly would happen, So as I see it: Any aura projection shouldve been deflected even if it was a strong or resillient force doing it. Shields can respond to specific forces, but was it too undetectable or just light to be deflected? Clearly those are the right answers to my question, I just plague myself with the second argument of: Shouldn't they have taken into all accounts of semblances, including passive hallucination ones?