Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26579022-20161015161855/@comment-25936766-20161019131149

Lessetti wrote: did Yang lose some of her Aura when she lost her arm? Did General Ironwood? Mercury? Aura is like a field. It extends and covers one's body, and can be used to also cover other objects in contact such as their weapons.

Yang lost her arm. Her Aura amount would be exactly the same, only now there is not as much space to cover. Ironically, this means the Aura would be a bit more concentrated, and thus Yang could last some more.

In Mercury and Ironwood's case, their Aura would do the same: Extend and cover their bodies. This includes Merc's prosthetics and Ironwood's Augmentations.

Imagine a stick man, and cover it duct tape. Now cut off it's arm, and cover it just as much duct tape. Now give it another arm, and cover it all again in just as much duct tape. It's more or less like that.

In Penny's case, her Aura wouldn't cover and protect the ripped-off parts......but there's a problem: She shut down. I really doubt Aura works when one is unconscious. And given how quick she shut down after being ripped, there are 2 possibilities: 1) Her "mind" is in her heart, and the head shut down because there was no longer a connection with it. Or 2) Her mind is in her head, but required a connection to something located in her chest (her "heart").

If 1 happened, Penny would be still alive, but incapable of doing much. If 2 happened, she's effectively dead unless they somehow managed to recover her head and put it in another body. And if 1 happened, her Aura would protect her torso and I think a leg, while if 2 happened it protects nothing for she's unconscious.