Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5217560-20150210080209/@comment-24993958-20150211201623

WarrenWitch wrote:

Although, I am not sure if aura is able to grow like a muscle per se. From the very few conversations in the show regarding Aura, it would seem that an individual innately possess this set amount of soul energy, regardless if it is an ample amount or not. And whatever amount they have, is what they are stuck with.

I highly doubt the amount of aura is fixed, at least I don’t think it would make sense for it to be that way, considering there is virtually no part of a human that never grows, not even the brain, and aura is treated as a power boost instead of a mutation that has a chance to happen...besides this show borrows enough elements from certain animated shows  to lead me to believe they won’t make aura static, that would take self-control and that is simply not something RT or the shows they derive it from have…and don’t even get me started on the rpg influences and how in all of them your “magic” bar grows with every level....

Wow, I have never thought of it that way. You gave me a "Circle of Life" moment hahaha. It should be noted that Blake mentioned that she was born with her ability. ...ok dude…there is such a thing as hyperboles…I mean think of this logically, even IF she had her aura unlocked at birth, how in the seven planes of Tartarus did she have enough control to make a shadow as she was kicking and screaming while being pulled from the womb? The answer is she didn’t…she was distraught at her assumed cowardly nature and started making exaggerated claims to support it. And no I'm not buying the excuse that one of her parents shares her semblance because, as this very wiki states here.

"Semblance is the manifestation of one's innate and personal power as an ability  unique  to each individual"

Also, Semblances are in part, hereditary, so perhaps the ability was there, and down the line was shaped by these "core" personality traits. There has been nothing in the show that indicates it’s hereditary yet, mind telling me where did you get that notion from? If Blake made a concious decision to stop avoiding conflict, what effects on her Semblance would that have? Basically, if that person no longer possessed that aspect of themselves, then how would their Semblance be a representation of who they are? Unless, regardless of whether or not they keep their core traits or lose them, their Semblances remains the same. Ok, you need to stop taking Blakes words for pure truth…she was emotionally distraught at the time and as I’ve mentioned, having a minor meltdown. Her core isn’t that she is a coward; her core...imOfc... is that she wants to help every suffering person at once while not getting attached to them in case she fails, which manifests as clones that let her be in more places at once while not actually being there. If and ONCE she decides to stop running away her clones might start playing more of an offensive role (think shadow clones in Nar…actually exactly like shadow clones in Naruto) rather than a defensive one (the traps she used against Roman) but she will still have the clones, because a person’s core simply cannot be changed once defined…as far as I’m concerned at least