Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-4010415-20151212225303

Zenbast wrote: Phantomlink959 wrote: Because we need to establish a baseline before accounting for advanced technology and magic? Still not relevant to use real science to explain a world where kids fight monster with power from soul and stone ... It's better to do supposition even the crazy one, like I did, than "oh, this work like that there so for them it's 100% the same" like we did so far in this trend. The main difference between them and us is that they have Aura (and Semblance, yes, but Semblance is a manifestation of Aura). The entire point of Aura is that it's an energy from their soul that protects them from getting actual injuries until they run out of it. Once it's gone, they can get injured and die. Plain and simple. We've been told this many times.

Why not assume "Merc had 0% Aura, we heard the sound of something hard breaking when Yang shot him in the knee, he screamed in pain, fell to the floor, and started yelling about his leg, so she must have broken his kneecap"?