User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Good Idea, Bad Idea-Best Day Ever/@comment-3257939-20140726015807/@comment-11188061-20140726023401

I don't know, how about as I mentioned before, understand that a joke scene is a joke scene and they can have someone throw a Death Star down at the cafeteria and everyone will still be fine?

That being said, although their food looks weapon grade to our eyes it's probably peas (except for that sword fish, that thing's actually lethal, if Nora hadn't blocked it (or Weiss aimed to) with her steel pipe it would have been bad) and nothings for them. They were controlling their strength for sure - even Nora. She supposedly smashed the floor with it (but it did not break) and she slammed Weiss back so hard the stone pillar broke, but on the third big strike it finally couldn't take the pressure and broke.

Also, the thing with Aura is probably like: As long as Aura is there people will not get hurt no matter how outlandish it seems.

So when Yang got smashed into the sun and back she's fine, because her Aura didn't break.

So when Weiss crashed into a pillar and did some unnecessary enviromental destruction that Monty cannot resist to try out because you know, that vid he posted about on Twitter but she's still fine, because her Aura is sufficient to protect her.

When Jaune gets wrecked by everyone, that's because he's so newbie he still doesn't know how to form a Semblance yet. He has no idea how to use his Aura and relies completely on its natural layer of protection. Everyone else knows how to hone their Aura (imagine energy being sharpened for attacks, being hardened and thickened for defense) already, but although he's training his physical skills, his Aura skills are weak.

He's especially bad if an attack catches him by surprise. Say that he's good enough to consciously focus his Aura against attacks, and into his own attacks. But he's inadequate when something catches him at a spot he wasn't expecting, or that his attention is diverted, so he gets knocked out (turkey to the face isn't something anyone expects lol).

Moreover, there's also the fact that he probably still hasn't gotten used to having Aura. How to put this? Let's say a bullet punctures the body. Jaune knows that. But suddenly he has Aura, and the bullet that should've killed only gave him intense pain. But his subconscious either doesn't comprehend or wasn't used to it, so Jaune thought, 'oh I'm dead' and then blacks out, even though it doesn't actually damages him.

A shorter explanation will be like having someone pull the gun trigger at your forehead with an empty gun, and people black out anyway.

By the way, the wall/pillar didn't hurt Weiss as much because it isn't infused with Aura. Nora's strike is infused with Aura, but you should understand that Weiss didn't try to forcefully stop the blow (impossible anyway). She got hit, and allowed it to carry her all the way to the back. With Aura, the crash into the stone pillar is probably like crashing into a mountain of boxes (RT Life reference!). Hurts probably, but no big deal.

The reason that she bled out when she was punched by the golem though, is because:

1) The golem is of course Dust powered, not to mention that it is armed to the teeth and built to destroy. Steel still > melons and sausage whips, you know.

2) The punch was powerful enough to get through her layer of Aura, or she accidentally hurt herself during the defense (she held her hand and sword up, so maybe Mrytenaster slammed into her face). Seriously not surprising - I mean, she got punched by a one tonne heavy looking steel fist and only bled. What else do you want?