Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20161210130927/@comment-26018514-20161212073725

ChishioKunrin wrote: 128.62.78.6 wrote: After watching the episode twice, I think I have a good idea what the red squiggles might be. Remember how everyone is supposed to have differently colored aura? Maybe those squiggles are in fact Ruby's aura flaring up in response to hard impacts from Tyrian, and maybe the whole selective flaring up of colored aura might just be new visual effects for Aura damage that they decided to include with the new animation software. Miles said that every hit lowers Aura, so even the weaker attacks lower Aura at least a little bit.

Meanwhile, as hard as Tyrian was kicking everyone's ass, Ruby is the only one who had those Aura shimmers. He kicked Ren, Nora, and Jaune hard enough to send them flying, and none of them had any sign of an Aura shimmer. Ruby was literally the only one. I'm guessing it's Tyrian's semblance... some kind of suppression ability... note how Ruby seems to be inadequate at even trying to use a special ability... only Jaune stepped up less and arguably that's because if he hadn't stepped up as much as he did he would have died rather than defend against a single one of Tyrian's strikes... and he still doesn't know his semblance.

Remember character short Ruby? There is almost no comparison in this episode. Ren kicked major butt though(despite having his ass handed to him).