Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-74.101.236.56-20170321065847/@comment-25936766-20170421231633

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Miles himself said aura fuels semblance though, which makes it really confusing for people like Qrow who's semblances are constantly active. There are at least 2 possibilities to make Qrow's work though.

1) It has an extremely small cost, so despite being constantly in usage, it won't cripple him, though it would most likely slow down his Aura recovery speed.

2) It's cost is either extremely small like in (1), or null, but it "spikes" when causing something bad to happen to someone nearby. In other words, it only costs when it's effect is actively working.

Now, as for how it seemingly worked despite Qrow seemingly being at 0% Aura.....other possibilities:

1) It increases people's bad luck, and that effect lingers for a while even if Qrow's Aura is taken down or he leaves the area.

2) It was the mundane kind of bad luck.

3) Qrow did not have 0% Aura. Low Aura, definitely, but not 0%. This idea is based on how Ruby also had her "Aura sparks" when Tyrian was kicking her ass, yet she clearly still had at least some Aura left to continue fighting.

So Qrow had enough Aura for his Semblance to keep working, but it was very low. Low enough that, in his moment of sheer idiocy, after saving Ruby from Gankplank, Tyrian thrusted at him, and Qrow had enough Aura remaining to about being pierced, but not enough to completely block the attack, hence why he still got grazed by the stinger.

The same idea could be used for Tyrian's dismemberment. He also had a very low Aura %, and what Ruby did, in the place she did it, dealt enough damage to reduce it to 0, and still had enough leftover damage to cut the tail (which wouldn't be hard, it's a scythe so sharp it cuts trees vs a scorpion tail).