Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170417075739/@comment-4010415-20170508082033

73.Anon.52 wrote:

PisceanWaterbender wrote:...

Another possibility...perhaps if you're put under extreme circumstances or stress, your Aura (even if it was depleted) could activate momentarily at a crucial moment, such as with Ren (would've likely died), or with Blake / Yang (who also would've died). I mean, Aura is one's Soul...having enough gusto to do something dangerous certainly warrants a temporary fix. Alternatively... maybe M & K were saying that Adam was able to 1 shot pierce their Aura, not deplete it... So their Aura went down temporarily and they suffered from the damage, but they still had enough to use it, just they were suffering from shock and it was not enough to particularly matter. Direct quotes of Miles and Kerry about Yang losing her arm (from this video):

Miles: The Aura is, y'know it's like, we establish in the [...] tournament fights that, like... Yeah, every hit can drop it and some hits can break it. It just so happens that Adam's attack was so badass that, in one hit, it managed to break it and do damage all at once, it was super powerful.

Kerry: Yang had also been fighting off-screen.

Miles: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that girl, that girl had been through some things! It's not necessarily a sword thing, more just like "Oh, he's strong! Oh, he's a scary man!"

Through context with what he said about what we saw in the tournament fights, I believe what Miles means by "break it" is "reduce it to 0%".