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Phantomlink959 wrote:

This means that a person with no aura would be constantly exhausted and frail at best, if they survived past infancy at all due to lack of ability to sustain activity. Their body would constantly weaken; muscle would not develop properly leading to breathing problems, poor muscle growth would cause a weak skeletal frame, high probability of heart failure, etc; leading up to the point of death, likely within hours or days of birth (if they even made it that far). That is a good point... This isn't canon, but, as speculation: It's possible that the reason people are so weak without aura is because they've all had aura for most of their life. For example, my headcanon is that Huntsman and Huntresses don't always look muscular because they build up their aura instead of their muscles. So it's possible that someone born without an aura would just be like a regular human in our world. Unfortunately, given the existence of all the fantasy elements in RWBY, such a person probably would be less likely to survive, but you could, in theory, explain away their survival as a mix of caution and luck.

Alternatively, another way to achieve a similar effect would be for the OC in question to have aura, but, for some unknown reason, no one can unlock their aura. It would create intrigue, as well as open up a possible plot with the character trying to research their aura and/or looking for different methods of unlocking aura. That could be interesting.