User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Good Idea, Bad Idea-Best Day Ever/@comment-2006510-20140725222552/@comment-4010415-20140725231350

I think they were all just overacting, so when they got hit sufficiently hard enough, they took that as an "I'm out for now!" like when you're playing paintball and get shot. If you're way too into the game, you might overact and pretend you're actually dying from that paintball, especially since paintballs can frickin hurt.

Also, I feel that Ren has shown that aura could possibly be used for offense. I'm pretty sure what he did to send the King Taijitu's fang through its skull was use his aura.

Oh, and Ren is not the only one to completely block something with an aura shield. Technically, Cinder was the very first one seen doing that, back in v1e1, when she blocked Ruby's bullets.

And... Remnant*. ^^; Vytal is the country that Vale is in. Remnant is the world.