Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-67.171.134.135-20150521032555/@comment-4010415-20150606091542

SpiritedDreaming wrote: how Aura actually works beyond 'it's an extension of our souls that we can use to make force fields, even though the only one who does that is Ren because asian martial arts influence', and maybe a bit more on how the school systems work - what happens if there is an odd number of students on the year or a team member dies, if everyone is taught to fight from the age of thirteen (going by Ruby's age, she is fifteen and has been at Sanctum for a couple of years, and Beacon goes for 4 years which makes it not too unlikely that Sanctum would do the same thing as a primer school for Huntresses 1. Cinder has also done that force field thing.

It's how we know that Ren's force field thing is not his Semblance. He and Cinder have focused a lot of training in controlling their Aura. Cinder did it because she uses raw Dust in her clothing, and you need a significant level of discipline to control raw Dust, or else you'll lose control of it. Since Dust is activated by Aura, it's not too hard to imagine that the "discipline" needed stems from having good control over your Aura.

2. Ruby went to Signal, not Sanctum. Pyrrha's the one who went to Sanctum.