Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-74.101.236.56-20170321065847/@comment-4010415-20170405060413

Weiss was a paranoid little princess. I'm not trying to throw a pity party for her but rather explain her reaction upon discovering that Blake was a White Fang member. It may not have been quite so bad if Blake had only revealed herself to be a Faunus, but she blurted out "Well, maybe we were just tired of being pushed around!" thus putting herself into the same category as the White Fang, without stopping to clarify that she had since left the White Fang because she didn't approve of their new violent methods. Two days later, Sun asked if she had done the sensible thing: "So... have you told your friends any of this?" Blake: "Oops lol, no I didn't, I just screamed at the top of my lungs the insinuation that I'm one of them and ran off hehe."

And to be fair, Blake only easily defeated Roman once. The first time she fought him, he defended himself pretty well against both her and Sun, and the only reason she knocked him down was because she got in a cheap shot while he was fighting Sun. When she fought Roman herself in volume 1, he actually managed to smack the shit out of her and knock her to the ground. The only reason she took him on so easily in volume 2 is because she had a new trick up her sleeve that he wasn't prepared for - combining Dust with her Semblance. In the bit of that fight where they were just fighting without Dust, he blocked her attacks, even though she was dual wielding, but then she caught his cane in an ice clone.

We know that Aura protects against cuts and blunt hits, but there's no telling if it protects against drowning or suffocation. We've even been told that the cuts and hits still actually hurt (as in, their nerves register pain), even though it doesn't do any damage.