Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-85.130.101.225-20130816112245/@comment-3257939-20140722214951

VedranTheII wrote: One thing that seriously needs to be considered is the fact that aura needs to be unlocked…or at least Jaunes does. If aura really does act as a shield all the time then why the heck don’t you have a in universe priest unlocking every kids aura at birth in order to…you know…drastically increase their life span… the answer is probably that they still need to train it, so having it at birth will, in the worst case scenario, turn the kid into a beacon for grimms.

Now I’m not willing to believe Jaune is an isolated incident because:

- He’s one of the main characters used to have stuff explained to him in order for us to better understand the universe (the other being Ruby)…having some of the exposition given to him be misleading is…counterproductive;

- There IS a chant to unlock ones aura and seems to be doable by anyone with good enough control;

- Pyrrhas reaction was more surprised than shocked…in the sense that she was surprised that Jaunes aura was not yet unlocked, as opposed to being shocked that it was sealed…which suggests people without aura are not an uncommon sight.

Anywho my point is aura seems to be a unlockable resource that can be trained to instinctively shield any damage; Jaune, being new to the aura thing doesn’t have that instinct trained yet, as opposed to Ren who activated his despite the snake seemingly getting the drop on him.

 Am I making sense here?

Sure you are. I think I remember that during RTX, at the RWBY panel, they said that everyone has an aura. That means every single person in this world is born with an aura. Now, unlocking that aura may be something that they need to do in order to achieve a semblance which apparently makes everyone in Remnant a mutant like if we were in X-men. But if every person got super powers, that would cause a lot of trouble so I guess unlocking the aura and finding your semblance has to be pretty hard thing to do.