Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160616024838/@comment-25936766-20160711153413

VedranTheII wrote:

If your reservation is in the fact he can tap into the semblance when ill (feel cold when he really isn’t)....

Except he would be cold. Fevers in particular affect body temperature. "When he really isn't" is plain wrong because he is. Now, whether he should be cold, it's the question, since fevers mess things up. Speaking from experience, when I got a fever I would feel hot when in a cold room, even my skin would feel hot on touch. And in warm rooms I would get chills, and my skin would feel pretty cold.

You try to argue that it would not be if he's cold or hot but if he thinks he is, but you miss 2 particular facts:

1-If a person is hot or cold, they would normally think they are hot or cold. In the same way that if you get an injury you would think you are injured.

2-Psychological factors also affect body temperature. In other words, your mind can make it real, something far more common than it sounds. If you think you are hot, your body can get and feel hot, and react accordingly.

TL;DR: I'm leaving it as it is because it needs no changes at all. Not even to avoid "confusion", since so far you're the only one that seems confused about anything about it.

Also, the effect is not "virtually mental". The physical part is the boosts it gives, the "user gains strength and endurance/speed and stamina" part. The mental part is the attitude changes that come with them.

And any mental factors, or biological factors, that affect body temperature? They have nothing to do with the Semblance. If someone gets hot due to a fever, alright, they get hot, and? It has nothing to do with the Semblance itself. The Semblance itself doesn't give him the fever, and without Dust won't even make him get hot, so?