Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-30530552-20180102163330/@comment-25936766-20180104171513

2600:1700:8230:3360:EDFF:D384:FDE1:49B1 wrote: The burn doesn't look THAT bad by what we've seen, And what we've seen is only the outside. And only while the Javelin was in Weiss, where it was noticeably-hot enough to leave an orange ring around itself on Weiss.

Arguing "by what we've seen" is to ignore all the internal damage it must've caused.

I don't think the spear had lava inside it Did you magically ignore or forget that very-glowing, very-outstanding Orange thing inside it?

Let me remind you, it's the same as it was with Cinder's obsidian sword. Which she had blown up, turning it into a blade of pure fire, if not lava or lava-like fire.

and red hot metal can still be used for cauterization. This was Glass, however. Obsidian Glass, which vanished after a few seconds.

Not to mention that "Red Hot Metal" is still going to cause great damage to you if it's piercing you from one end to the other, because it burns your muscles, your bones, your veins, and your internal organs. And the heat itself can make it harder to breathe, at the very very least.

"Don't worry, it cauterizes wounds! :D". Yeah, cool. Doesn't mean fire is harmless. Lit yourself on fire someday, then tell me if it was totally harmless.

Hell, in Dying Light I don't give a damn about Dying Light, nor Star Wars. This is RWBY.

Science fiction is where incredible things like light speed are normally explained by advancements in technology. Light Speed is just a matter of speed. If you can go fast enough you can go at Light Speed. Given most Sci-Fy is set in a much more technologically-advanced era, the idea that they have the technology to reach that speed in Space is perfectly believable.

Very different from the idea that:

>Having a very-hot Obsidian Javeling pierce you from one end to the next

>Burning up whatever was near it inside you

>Then vanishing (meaning you're gonna bleed out)

>ALL after an electric laser beam already caused damage to the same area

...Is totally harmless because "heat cauterizes wounds :D". It's a very ridiculous idea.

In action movies, there are plenty of moments where people get blasted into a car and keep on running. And in real life the same can happen. After all, being blasted into a car doesn't mean you're gonna end up crippled, doesn't even mean you can't get up and move, especially when adrenaline is in the works muzzling your pain.

And don't even get me started on the sillier versions of fantasy where you can get a steak for a Russian mercenary with a minigun named Sasha by putting scrap metal into a sandwich. This is not Team Fortress 2. Point dismissed.

This is a fantasy world, so real life details don't necessarily have to matter as much and things don't always have to make sense. Just because "it's fantasy" it doesn't mean the writers can just do whatever they want. Fantasy only works due to Suspension of Disbelief, and often there are limits and rules in place.

In this case, Aura protects against all damage, but it only protects while it's active. When it falls, it will not protect you no matter how badass you are or how much you've trained. Even the cheapest dagger can and will injure, if not kill you, when your Aura is down.

Weiss's Aura, was down. Thus she receives full damage, she can, should and will be injured by said damage. And the damage she received was quite harsh.

How does Ruby launch herself at mach 2 speed so suddenly without f**king up her insides and suffer from hemorrhaging? Aura + Required Secondary Powers.

Same thing goes for Yang who was punched by a giant robot, which could still inflict some pretty heavy internal damage. Not really. The Paladin's fist was bigger than herself. Simple Physics dictate that the bigger the Area where the force is applied, the least effective the Force applied is, because it's less concentrated.

Add Aura into the mix shielding her, and it's quite easy to see how Yang could get up from that with no lasting damage, especially since her Aura never went down.

Why didn't Coco's spine snap from being yanked away so hard by Emerald? Aura.

Why didn't Yang's freaking SHOTGUN GAUNTLETS punch gaping holes in any of the goons in the Yellow Trailer? Aura. Plus, you're ignoring what kind of shots she fired back in Vol.1-3 Explosive shells.

They are not like your generic shotguns that shoot a bunch of bullets in random directions and are useless beyond 3 feet. Ember Celica shoots explosive shells, either a single shell similar to a grenade, or a conical blast outright.

Not to mention they use Fire Dust shells. And Dust explosions, based on what we've seen in the show, are quite weaker than one would think.

I am VERY certain they didn't have auras, otherwise they wouldn't be knocked out so easily. Aura only absorbs damage. And even then just having Aura unlocked doesn't mean you'll inmediately be a tank. Pain, by the way, is not blocked, and one can be KOd if they receive too much pain, even if nothing lethal happened.

With ALL OF THIS being said, it's unlikely that Weiss will die. Worst case scenario, she's out of commission for a while. I'm not arguing that she will die. And obviously she's out of the rest of the fight.

However, I am arguing that by all means she shouldn't just survive without consequence. Instead, she should end up like Yang back in Vol.3: She survived, but not intact.