Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25086632-20151123071037/@comment-70.27.64.174-20151212205222

Okay, let's see if I've finally gotten the aura-semblance thing right. Your aura is the outward manifestation of your soul. It's personal and it's your soul's color so to speak. Anyone can have any color of aura. Aura activates the magic in a character's make up, gained individually by acquiring runes and learning whatever spells were/are available, glyphs being a popular one. Semblance is the special ability you bring to the fight. Ruby's is speed, Yang's is fire+the ability to merge the kinetic energy from a hit into her own strength, etc. Dust can come in any color, but that color can only power an aura or semblance of the same shade. Have I gotten any of this wrong?

(And I didn't ever seriously suggest close blood relationships as the be-all and end-all of the color thing. Phantomlink959 didn't read the post where I ended yelling Purple Aura, Purple Sembance, Purple everything, someone stop me before I Purple more! It was clearly a jest. I really don't know why people miss my sense of humor.)