Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20151020211700/@comment-24994749-20151103044056

SpiritedDreaming wrote: MetallicArcher wrote: I have one last doubt about the regenesis semblance. (Sorry if we have already moved on from this subject.)

Isn't it close to being redundant with aura basic functions? I mean, when Pyrrha unlocked Jaune's aura, it healed the wound on his face and Pyrrha's reaction "whoa, you got a lot of it".

When I'm back home I will try to fill the extended profile. (It's okay, we're always happy to revisit a discussion about this sort of stuff)

Well, natural aura heals and slows down the bodies decay. I was thinking it could be something like Tsunade's seal, from Naruto, which actually reverse the effects of aging.

So yes, her aura can heal scrapes and bruises normally. Then with her semblance activated, it can heal somewhat moderate cuts and possibly a fractured bone or a torn muscle/ligament, but not heal actually broken bones or organ damage. She uses it to reverse the effects of ageing somewhat, making her look 10-15 years younger by reducing wrinkles (which wouldn't be that many since if you look at Glynda or Ozpin they don't really look that old). And in a battle, she stops using it to give her skin that elasticity of youth, and starts using it for fractures and cuts instead.

Though one limitation I would give it is that it doesn't speed the bodies natural production of blood, so she can still die from blood loss if she's not careful, even if she heals the cuts. Well, Ozpin doesn't really count since he has been hinted to have trained to the point of becoming more than human. And I chalk everybody else to the animation limiting the face modelling.

And, yeah, Tsunade's seal is a good comparison here. Though, except for Yang's use of her hair to store up her semblance, we don't really have any in-universe equivalents the Byakugo Seal. Also, the excess use of the Rebirth Technique was said to shorten the person's life span, wasn't it?, while in the WoR it was implied the use of aura could serve to extend it.

What's the difference between fractured and broken here? You mean fractured as in fissured vs broken as in completely cut into two or more separated parts?

And I agree on the blood thing, for starters the mechanism to generate more blood strikes me as more complex and needing more ingredients than the mechanism for cicatrization. And it's not like the fact she can close minor wounds + the shielding provided by aura doesn't already mean she would have to take some pretty major damage to risk bleeding out.