Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20161230201819/@comment-26397825-20170102013056

Well, to explain how the character is still alive, it could be an activatable one - so the character has to activate it, or things just happen as they would normally. That way they can drive a car without worrying about what happens if they're in a car accident...which would turn into an 18 car pileup on one of those big, freestanding highways in Vale and basically shut down the entire highway for hours.

The other option is making it like Qrow's in that it doesn't affect the user or things the user does, but affects the people around them instead.