Talk:Semblance/@comment-38335413-20190128130839/@comment-25936766-20190128135129

A lot of things are only mentioned behind the scenes. But Word of God is Word of God, so they can't just be dismissed like that. The writers said Semblances are sorta fueled by Aura, they are until they blatantly retcon it on the show.

As for the Aura WoR, 1) It does not imply such thing, and 2) It retconned how Aura worked when it came out than then got retconned back to how it was.

First Aura had to be activated, as stated by Pyrrha when Jaune cut himself with a branch. Then the Aura WoR said it was passive instead. Then Vol.5 came around and said it had to be activated, and in fact it was difficult to do it at first. Which would also mean Jaune should've died back in the Initiation, but still.

And that final explanation is how we answer these examples:

>Weiss using Glyphs after bleeding

>Blake using a Shadow Clone after being stabbed 

They dropped their Aura guard for a moment. It is something that requires focus, after all. Weiss back then was (and still is) the least experienced member of Team RWBY and the punch took her by surprise, and Blake back then was basically shivering just from seeing Adam again.

Now, as for the other examples you mention:

>Emerald using it on Qrow after Amber fight: I seriously do not remember Emerald's Aura actually being taken down at all during the entire fight. But even if it had, enough time passes before Qrow arrives for it to be believable that her Aura recovered enough to blur their faces.

>Raven in the V5 Finale: Quite a number of minutes passed between her Aura going down and finishing her talk with Yang. Enough time for it to recover.

>Maria using her reflexes to kill Tock: No she didn't. She did not at all use them to kill her. She just noticed Tock was in front of her and pulled one of the kama in an attempt to land a hit and save her own skin. Which doesn't even need any fancy reflexes, she just needed her ears.

>Qrow's Semblance kicking in after his Aura was down: This is the only example you listed that has no real excuse or explanation. 1 out of 5. Even then, it's passive, and seemingly costs no Aura to work, so eh.