Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25857155-20150111054847/@comment-25555436-20150215212652

VedranTheII wrote: I had to deal with loosing an argument against this kind of thing…but thankfully not in this series because this can be debunked easily with 1 word: AURA.

Hunters DO NOT directly control elements; they put their aura IN elements and manipulate them with it. They aren’t gods that manipulate the very fabric of existence, they are overly powerful psychics.

In theory a fire user could send his aura into an existing flame in order to take control of it…but if said flame is already occupied by someone else’s  aura than he has to wrestle control over it…and that generally requires WAY more energy than it’s worth.

And this debunks my point.....how? All this did was finish explaining, justifying, my point.

-Dust A is a Fire Dust. Used by Hunter A to cause a flame.

-Dust B is a Fire Dust. Used by Hunter B to cause a flame.

-Each of them used their Auras to activate their Dusts, and each of them can control the flame they made.

-But they can't control the other's flame, because it was done by activating another Dust with their Aura. As such, to control that other flame, one would have to, like you said, wrestle for control over it if only for a few seconds.

And that's if one takes your explanation to the letter. Because it could also mean that one could use their Aura to activate the Dust in someone else's weapon, causing it to misfire or maybe even explode.

Or someone, say Cinder, activates the Dust in Myrtenaster's barrel using her Aura, setting it ablaze. Or heck, activates every type of Dust in it, causing it to electrofreezerburn, among other things.

Does that sound reasonable, and possible, to you? It sounds pretty unfair to me, and could make any fight against anyone with Aura, very one sided.