User blog comment:VedranTheII/Pretentious Diaries 2: What tricks would you teach your Aura?/@comment-25555436-20150718035449/@comment-24993958-20150718110819

About Blake: Seems to be mostly because of the angle...outside of adding another picture to show her slash traveled I’m not sure how to represent that scene without a video clip.

About the lines: That seems to be the common consent people that have been here longer than you or I have reached as well. Although I’m still slightly confused about Cinder changing her clothes, if her outfit is entirely made out of dust threads (provided dust threads are real of course), than she simply rearranged her outfit, so that makes sense.

In addition, although Glyndas pattern looks more complicated, 3 circles of that shield have the same pattern. I think those patterns might be the equivalent of their Rune…signature? And much like Semblances unique to the individual.

So not exactly purely purely aura powered, but at the very least not semblance powered, so I’ll take what I can get.