Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-30530552-20171031173636/@comment-14909251-20171104051927

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Simple: Aura is limited, Magic is not.

Aura doubles as your shield and your fuel for whatever fancy Aura tricks you wanna use. So doing, say, Aura Barriers uses up Aura just like receiving a hit would.

Maiden Magic does not require Aura, you can be at 0% Aura and still cause a firestorm.

All Cinder had to do was wait until Ozpin's Aura ran out, since the fight already was barely balanced. Then he would be dead since without Aura, he's just a strong old man, nothing that can compare to a woman who can cause Kamehamehas of Fire even without Aura. I would like to think it didn't boil down to something that simple. For one, Cinder seemed pretty reticent about saying she killed Ozpin back in Volume 4. Were it just a matter of her fighting and outlasting him, then I would expect her to have less trouble with acknowledging it.