Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24534644-20170630004409/@comment-25936766-20170724161317

RayStrikeAbius wrote: 1) Ah. I get it now. Still, would have helped if this was specified somewhere. 2) You can say that in parenthesis or something, but still give his actual age. Probably would have been more helpful for figuring out his timeline placement, actually.

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7) You don't need to be interested/knowledgeable in Huntsmen training routines in order to notice that you don't get burned when you grab something hot or get cut when you hit something sharp.

Even if he did notice early on, but chose to just ignore it and count his blessings, that would have been better than saying he didn't realize anything was unusual until much later in his life. 1+2) True, it would've helped in hindsight.

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7) Regarding burns specifically....I'm pretty sure Huntsmen still get 1st-degree burns, where the skin only turns red and it's not dangerous. Or at least, that they get those burns in-universe and we don't see their skin get red every single time they get blasted with Fire Dust because it'd be too much of a hassle for the animation team (kinda like the crater in V1).

And regarding 1st degree burns specifically, well, look at the activation cue for his Semblance.

Now, about cuts and injuries and all...he still suffered those, because Aura, especially the untrained Aura of someone who didn't even know about it, will only help so much.

Consider Jaune, who despite having lots of Aura, still got noticeable bruises from just some punches when he was a total noob. Now replace Jaune with Herbert and replace punches with axes and claws from things really trying to kill him.

Now, sure, with Aura he was more protected than a normal faceless mook, but it wasn't enough to turn him into a living tank or anything. Far from it. Since he still got injured from time to time, it didn't feel so conspicuous either.