Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20161210130927/@comment-4010415-20161212041843

128.62.78.6 wrote: After watching the episode twice, I think I have a good idea what the red squiggles might be. Remember how everyone is supposed to have differently colored aura? Maybe those squiggles are in fact Ruby's aura flaring up in response to hard impacts from Tyrian, and maybe the whole selective flaring up of colored aura might just be new visual effects for Aura damage that they decided to include with the new animation software. Miles said that every hit lowers Aura, so even the weaker attacks lower Aura at least a little bit.

Meanwhile, as hard as Tyrian was kicking everyone's ass, Ruby is the only one who had those Aura shimmers. He kicked Ren, Nora, and Jaune hard enough to send them flying, and none of them had any sign of an Aura shimmer. Ruby was literally the only one.