Talk:Aura/@comment-43719117-20190910221655/@comment-48714-20190910234159

Aura having to be activated was actually referenced in Volume 1 with Pyrrha asking Jaune why he didn't use his to reflect the tree branch. So its always been something that's needed to be actively used.

World of Remnant describes it as "passive", but I still don't see it as a contradiction. Can it not just be something that has to be actively "turned on" but will remain on until the user "turns it off" or it runs out?

They've never told us everything about Aura (or any aspect of the world, really) and they probably never will. Its better for the writing process that things can be flexible. They don't want to think of a cool idea down the road and not be able to use it because of some rule they made earlier.