Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25405817-20160511154306/@comment-26463535-20160517020232

Hidden Scorpius XI wrote: Cyrania de Bergerac wrote: One thing that we ought to talk about here is how to make a good Star Wars X RWBY crossover.

One idea I have is that aura is unlockable for anyone and that Jedi powers are a form of aura that only a certain percent of people can unlock that allows them to have multiple "semblances" at once but without the specialized semblance and the constant energy shield. Basically, Jedis are jacks with multiple abilites and no protection while aura users are specialists with protection. Cyrania, we ought not. If you want help with your fic, then you will receive it. But we don't "ought to." Saying we "ought to" is a demand, and a faux pas. Just so you know.

Now, I think I already explained this to you, but the way Force and Aura work are quite different in a fundamental level. However, the way you explain it now is a bit more concrete and logical. Having some people develop their power to use the Star Wars' Force to the point it becomes RWBY's Aura/Semblance makes sense. However, you need to correct your concept of the Force.

Jedi, individuals trained in the Force, have a set of abilities that can be listed very quickly:


 * Feeling the prescence of living beings.


 * Danger and general precognition.


 * Suggestionate weak minds.


 * Levitate objects, themselves, and push enemies.


 * In some, exclusive cases, lightning generation.

A Jedi can't absorb damage to boost their strength; can't create a copy of themselves as a decoy; can't manipulate matter to instant-freeze their surroundings. Jedi are not jacks-of-all-trades.

In your story, you can make Specialists do that. But Jedi can't and shouldn't.

You forgot about force healing and force speed, but I understand what you're saying. And sorry that the "ought to" part sounded condescending. I just meant that this is a thread about how to create good crossovers, Star Wars is a popular thing to crossover with, therefore some general rule about what the relation between the Force and Aura is would be appriciated by any writers who actually check this thread.

I more imagine the Force to be a blanket term for any psychic powers, though certain powers like Force lighting or Head Explosion (from the movie Scanners) are evil by their very nature and therefore not practiced by true Jedi. With that frame, it's sort of like in the Belgariad where each user can use any ability others can, but since each person's mind is different, they tend to be inclined more to certain abilities than others.

Force users would have to experiment to find their inclination while people with their aura unlocked are limited to the one major ability and to a couple minor abilites derived from manipulating the aura shield surrounding them.