Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-96.233.74.45-20140413040730/@comment-24374466-20140426161444

I know. Like I said, I thought the same thing. I just decided afterward that I wanted to take it further, so that it could do that and more. I ended up with what I said, but I started with the same idea of reflection (I only make the difference because refraction is usually used when it occurs at an angle, and I imagined it being more like a deflection of the force instead of sending it back). In short, I wanted to make it an active thing as opposed to just a passive one, largely because I felt the shield function should be served by aura alone as we see with Ren against the King Taijitu (yours is probably better, since Cardin's hand doesn't seem to fly back: it seems like a "solid wall" effect more than a push back).