Talk:Neopolitan/@comment-27045477-20170721004843/@comment-25936766-20170723033337

First of all, I'm pretty sure RT themselves have said that Neo uses Illusions (and that Emerald creates Hallucinations). Of course, this is fiction, this is an action show, so those "Illusions" are not going to be 100% like the real thing. Probably not even 70%.

An Illusion is sensing something like something else. If you see a still image as if it was moving, or hear water running down a river as if it were people screaming. Optical Illusions are the most famous, but there is such thing as Tactile and Auditory Illusions.

Examples of Tactile Illusions include phenomenoms like Phantom Limbs, the "Cuttaneous Rabbit" Illusion, and the "Thermal Grill" Illusion. Examples of Auditory Illusions include the "Shepard Tone". You can google any of those if they interest you.

Now, introductions of concepts aside, it should be noted, that's how they are 1) In real life, and 2) At a technical level.

Now, RWBY is, again, fiction, an action show, so expecting it to be "realistic", especially when it was created by a man who dropped out of high school and is written by people who don't always do the proper research.

As such, Illusions are more like simple tricks of vision. "See something here, don't see something here". Reduced to it's most simplistic.

Seen that way, what Neo makes is definitely Illusions, just not "realistic" Illusions. For example, making people see a fake Neo somewhere, or make people not see the actual Neo while she's doing something.

And take note of the latter: If someone moved from X spot to Y spot and you didn't see nor hear them move, it would look as if they teleported. And guess what, people with Aura can be pretty fast with training and/or experience.