Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20140808014446/@comment-24891101-20140808021347

Doesn't seem to, else she could have prevented her synthskin from coming off by projecting it out. (Pulling a Ren, in other words. Anyone with Aura can do it. "It's like a force field!") And she's "combat-ready", and Aura seems a critical part of combat training.

There is the possibility that the shield thing is Ren's semblance, but I doubt it. That concept hadn't even been introduced at that point, so it makes sense that it was showcasing Aura in general. And it's the traditional interpretation of a force field.