User blog comment:Zolnir/RWBY Episode 8/General Reviews & Speculations/@comment-5217560-20130907192422/@comment-11188061-20130908033742

Well, charging head on like speeding car into a speeding truck would, in my opinion, hurt more. Ren never really got injured at any point fighting the Basilisks.

Perhaps the cut off, unseen scenes would reveal Ren having to take a hit from the Ursa or something because of Nora fooling around, then it'll be acceptable to say that Ren was simply much more used than any of the other characters. His clothes looked really dirty when he came out of the forest. Of course it's hard to run full speed in a forest after a rampaging bear, but then again, remember that the humans in RWBY are pretty much non-standard.

They're all monster class actually, so Ren feeling like a normal human didn't actually look right to me.