Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-60.240.40.166-20140702043848

What i'm wondering is if it requires someone else who has unlocked their aura to unlock someone elses, how did the first person unlock theirs?

I know the only way shown so far of unlocking someones aura was with Jaune and Pyrra but my idea for how is something that everyone uses, Dust. We've been told that the Grimm would of destroyed humanity if dust wasn't around but we've seen people kill grimm without using it; Ren Vs Giant snake whose name i won't even try to spell, and Jaune Vs Ursa. In both of these no dust was really used to kill the Grimm but it was Aura that had the big role in it.

They would still be able to defeat grimm without dust but how did Aura originate? I think Aura appeared around the same time as dust because Dust was originally used to unlock it. The reason they don't use it now (i think, remember only 1 way was shown) is because they discovered how to unlock it using other aura and that it was much easier and/or less dangerous than using dust.

I know that someone might argue that "Maybe someone was born able to use it cause it was strong and stuff" but i chose to ignore that because Jaune's aura was apparently strong and it wasn't unlocked for him. Another reason is it would be hard to convince someone you had this awesome power and even harder to get someone to let them be a test subject to see if you could give them it. 