Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-24993958-20160723111655

Gastropod wrote: 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. Just because the writers did not fully consider the consequences of making a character not aware of aura in relation to giving him a family of warriors, does not mean I won’t.

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. Can’t complain there, I share your annoyance on that end. As far as I care there is no reason for the people of Remnant not to baptize their kids at birth and make them accident proof.

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). Untrue. All we have is give or take 3 lines about his mum, one of which as pointed out by me, can be interpreted as neglectful. We have not seen his mother, not seen the 2 interact, and on the flipside we have seen Jaune be the type of character to bottle up his negative emotions and only open up in private. That is not tons of evidence, unless your definition of tons means pounds to me.