Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160711184711/@comment-26397825-20160808125104

I'm on the others sides in a different way, Someone; the pain to the user seems superfluous to me. I mean, the user would know that the blades aren't real, thereby being able to block out half the pain anyway as they know how their semblance works. It would be less of a battle of willpower and more of a masochist by the sounds of it, as the user simply has to thing to themself "It's just my semblance, I can end it at any moment, but they don't know that. In their mind it's all real." They have an instant advantage over the other guy.

I think it's a fine semblance, but I would suggest losing the pain to the user simply for this reason.

(Also, you separated Vedran's two points, when they are connected. It feels less like a semblance and more like a spell because it causes pain to the user; magical backlash and all that jazz. They're the same point, not two separate ones as you have addressed them.)