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VedranTheII wrote: -slow clap-

Nice detective skills. For future reference though, try reading the last posts of a long thread instead of the first post; question threads tend to stop having activity once an answer or a general consensus is reached.

Thank you for the life lesson, clearly I am not made for this forum life *sigh*

Anyway, right after I wrote this piece, I came across the World of Remnant lesson, regarding Aura, aka the fourth segment that was exclusive only in the DVD/Blu-ray set. Anyway, I searched for a YouTube video of it, there was none, but there are a few guys who were kind enough to sort of tell us what was told to them and review the segment...

Anyway, I learned that Aura is, to borrow Jaune's word, a force field - a defensive soul-projection. I'm sure this is a butchered explanation, but that's the best that I could come up with without having to cite every single words.

Semblance, on the other hand, is the projection of someone's soul/Aura. And it's offensive. Now, colour me shock! I thought that it's more of like, 'oh, it's reflective of your soul and personality', like what we were led to believe with Blake and her Shadow thingy Semblance. But I figured that it's probably more like 'it can be used as an offense' because come on, nothing is offensive about speed and glyphs, until you actually manipulate it to be so.

Which neatly brings me back to my previous point, which is that I believe Jaune's Semblance is something akin to Sakura's Chakra manipulation technique. I really, really hope that Pyrrha's comment on Jaune's abundance of Aura and the immediate healing effect is a nod to that, because think about it: Jaune's weapon is basically an heirloom waiting to be left forgotten no matter how useful it might be, but if he could actually manipulate his Aura and project it offensively via his weapons (sword AND shield) then it'll definitely be a +1.

I don't really see much past that, definitely no armour/weapon conjuring because by then it'd be like, major disadvantage to other people. I mean, like other people's Semblance are like speed, glyphs, telekinesis or polarity, and then you have this one guy with the thousand swords Semblance. Hell no.