Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170417075739/@comment-30530552-20170508025629

SpiritedDreaming wrote: I was curious about the same thing, so I went and checked the length of visible sword from when Adam stabs Blake to when he's just holding it normally. It's actually only 'inside' Blake by a miniscule amount - just the tip basically. Given that the stomach is a fleshy part of the body which can be depressed easily when poked with something, I don't think the sword actually pierced her body at all. It felt like it did, and it pushed the skin of her stomach down so it looked like it did from our point of view, but it actually didn't.

As for why she cried out as though she had been stabbed - aura stops the wound but not the pain. She legitimately felt like she had just been stabbed in the gut.

This explains how she was able to use her semblance immediately after and carry Yang's dead weight without being crippled by the pain such lifting would cause when you have a hole in your gut.

Also, we have been told Semblance uses Aura as fuel by Miles. But - and this is pure headcanon here - I think that you can use your semblance at the level you are used to so long as you have aura. So like Sun - he's used to creating 3 clones who last a limited amount of time. My theory is that he can spam these 3 limited time clones as much as he likes so long as he has aura left. However, trying to push himself beyond what he was used to - such as creating 4 clones for an extended period of time to pin down Ilia - drained his aura. I could get behind that, sure. However, that still doesn't explain why Blake would need bandages in that particular area if there was no bleeding or no body-stabbing. The other possibility is that her Aura recovered just enough [assuming it was a minimal stabbing like you suggested, and that she was at, like, 1% battery here] to be able to use her Semblance and save Yang. The other possibility...perhaps if you're put under extreme circumstances or stress, your Aura (even if it was depleted) could activate momentarily at a crucial moment, such as with Ren (would've likely died), or with Blake / Yang (who also would've died).