Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.146.149.161-20150813074512/@comment-25555436-20150906185158

VedranTheII wrote: @Live: No aura unlocked when a group of extremist actively want her dead…sounds legit. Hey, it's just a possibility. Maybe she didn't know back then that it existed and thought, like most people, that Hunters do all that crazy shit due to their training (it happens often in fiction). Maybe she knew but didn't know how to unlock it. Maybe the WF never gave her the chance to learn how due to their constant attacks. Maybe she learned how, but wasn't able to unlock it back then.

All those possibilities however being in the past, before Weiss joined Beacon. But hey, that's just a theory, a RWBY THEORY, thanks for reading.

But seriously though, do you see all the members of big-and-wide companies spend time training in kung fu and gunslinging even if they are under constant attacks? Nope, not all of them do even if it would be useful. The rational course of action would be for her to at least have it unlocked, but not everyone is rational sadly.

@Anon: While I admit, the possibility of Winter graduating from a Combat School is perfectly reasonable, and if she did then all the possibilities of her not being on par with Weiss in a fight or not having her Aura unlocked are rendered null, let me remind you that we have no hard evidence that she went to a Combat School in the first place.

And in any case, remember that what I said in that post only stood on the possibility, that Winter had no Hunter training. If she did, the comparison is completely different, and much more equal.