Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-410526-20160723105909

Ultimately, it's probably as simple as the writers needed someone who didn't know what Aura is, so that Pyrrha could explain it to the audience.

But if you want an in-universe explanation, I can't speculate on why they didn't unlock his Aura. That's a question that actually goes some way out of scope for this discussion. Why don't all people have their Aura unlocked if it's so simple, so beneficial, and has absolutely no ill-effects? Huntsmen and Huntresses should be setting up lines of people to get their aura unlocked like vaccinations. We don't really know.

And anyway, that doesn't change the fact that there is tons of evidence to suggest that he has a great relationship with his parents (particularly his mom) but they simply aren't supportive of his ambitions to be a huntsman. I don't think there is anything to say that he is a neglected child that can't also be explained another way (see my previous post).