Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131214014011/@comment-67.240.163.3-20131214065124

If they exist and have the right to judge upon a soul whose walls are arbitrary and completely up to themselves. Its more likely aura is simply a self representation of growth.

We automatically assume that point should be where he "overcomes" his wall? Because his Aura comes to save him at that particular point? Character growth is not set upon any universal guidelines. The only reason one says its true "growth" right then and there is because his aura appeared. Which is assuming there is a standard to be followed, and I'd just like to know exactly what technical limits there are to such a thing. Because for all we know, he may have simply focused on a sheer survival instinct or was filled with cowardice at the very last second beyond any walls thus activating his aura. Although, it is very pleasant to think aura works on a sheer character growth standard.

If you were to say it was overcoming Jaune's wall alone, without having a good/evil spectrum involved anywhere, I'd wholeheartedly accept because someone doing an arbitrarily "good" thing and automatically being expected to be rewarded for it in greater aura control/precision/whatnot is cliche and I'd rather not see Jaune become a hero just on something so simplistic.

Everyone sees what enlightenment is to them in a different way. Which is why I'm asking on a seperate note, why we should interpret Cinder's enlightenment as automatically "dark" to our standards on top of the fact that she's barely been introduced? With a spectrum that is also arbitrary to us?

White Fang is neither good nor bad. Yet that can be said differently depending on the person asked. But then that also applies to every other person in RWBY. Why then, is someone given a "light/dark" enlightenment, when everyone seen in a good or bad way is dependant on who is asked? I can say, for example, that Jaune deserves a "dark" enlightenment because I think he is a person who is afflicted with cowardice more often than most other characters. But then asking someone else, a fan of Jaune lets assume, they could say he is someone who deserves a "light" enlightenment because he is self-sacrificing and courageous. It makes more sense to me that everyone deserves a "middle" enlightenment because like the White Fang, people are coded arbitrarily good/evil depending on who you ask.