Dr. Bright vs Yang Xiao Long

[Yobo_Blue]

I'll tell you about it when you're older.
I see it now. Why do I get whooshed so hard all the time?

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

@Dargoo
No, it can definitely not.

Not mind/soulswap or not-not mind/soulswap? I switched my opinion on that.

 

[Kepekley23]

Not-not mind/soulswap. Zero proof that aura can block that kind of hax and it's a NLF.

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

The main issue is that said hax is done through physical contact; which Aura would prevent.

That said, I'm a bit unsure, could you elaborate?

 

[WeeklyBattles]

@Kep Its done through physical contact, yes aura would block it

 

[Kepekley23]

Aura prevents physical attacks, not hax. Considering the fact that those with their aura on are still able to feel pain and heat, I doubt it will be able to protect from mindhax made through contact.

 

[WeeklyBattles]

@Kep The Soul and mind hax is done through physical attacks

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

Aura prevents physical attacks, not hax. Considering the fact that those with their aura on are still able to feel pain and heat, I doubt it will be able to protect from mindhax made through contact.

Heat, i.e. transference of energy can happen over most kinds of physical mediums, tbh. You'll still feel a bit of chill putting dry ice next to insulated clothing.

Still feeling pain does put more doubt on my opinion.

Where exactly do we hear about Aura's function as a full-body forcefield?

 

[Kepekley23]

No, it's not. It's done through physical contact, which Aura doesn't block. Users of Aura can still feel pain, heat, etc.

 

[Jinsye]

>Weekly debating on an SCP vs. RWBY thread

Finally

 

[Kepekley23]

Pain is triggering of nerves. So what about the semantics?

 

[WeeklyBattles]

@Kep Aura is a forcefield that acts as armor. If youre hit in the stomach with a baseball bat while wearing armor you'd still feel the impact but the bat wouldnt touch you. The same applies here. Aura blocks the contact part of the attack but not damage.

 

[Schnee_One]

Can someone convince me how Bright doesn't stomp?

 

[WeeklyBattles]

@Dargoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQS1_3QWt1Q

Here as well as bits and pieces over the course of the entire series

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

Can someone convince me how Bright doesn't stomp?

Yang goes for a long distance shootout as opposed to a CQC scenario.

Unlikely, but it makes this desisive as opposed to a stomp.

 

[Kepekley23]

@Weekly

Complete opposite. Aura blocks damage, not contact. Bright touches her and she gets wiped because Aura doesn't have any feats for mind hax.

 

[WeeklyBattles]

@Kep No, Aura has consistently shown to block contact but not damage. Its how guys like Flynt can take a swim in lava and be physically undamaged but still feel the pain of the lava.

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

I'm starting to see Kep's point here. It lessens damage as opposed to contact, that makes sense given what we see in the series, with how characters can get scratches and wounds while not having their aura shatter entirely.

 

[WeeklyBattles]

@Dargoo Characters CANT get scratches and wounds while their aura is up, thats the whole point

 

[WeeklyBattles]

No characte rin RWBY has ever once gotten a physical injury while their aura is up other than Jaune who had no idea how to use aura

 

[Kepekley23]

@Weekly

That...doesn't make much sense. If he is able to feel it's because it made contact. It doesn't damage him, but makes contact and his skin visibly reacts to it.

 

[WeeklyBattles]

@Kep Think of it like this: Punch a wall, then put wallpaper on the wall and punch the wall. Youre damaging the wall itself but youre touching the wallpaper, not the wall. Aura operates in the same manner.

 

[WeeklyBattles]

Aura users still get harmed by the force of attacks, but the attacks themselves do not make contact with the aura users

 

[Kepekley23]

Except I am touching the wall because a wallpaper is extremely thin and my arm can still get a reaction out of it.

 

[Wokistan]

Show me a character who resists contact based mindhax because they wear clothes

 

[WeeklyBattles]

@Wok Clothes arent a forcefield that functions by blocking physical attacks

 

[WeeklyBattles]

@Kep No, youre not touching the wall, youre touching the wallpaper that is covering the wall but damaging the wall behind the wallpaper

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

Weiss gets injured

I'd give more examples but I'd rather not re-watch the series.

 

[Wokistan]

Armor, which can be considered clothing, is exactly that. Also, both are a physical impediment to direct contact.

 

[WeeklyBattles]

Weiss gets injured

Thats from before aura existed

 

[Dargoo_Faust]

Weiss gets injured

Thats from before aura existed

What

Aura was a thing since the beggining of the series.

 

[WeeklyBattles]

@Dargoo The trailers and most of the early episodes of Volume 1 were before a lot of the later concepts of the series existed. Hell Cinder's Maiden powers didnt even exist until volume 3

 

[Schnee_One]

That trailer came out before Aura as a mechanic in the show was created

There are still dozens of examples of getting hurt with Aura on, see every electricity scene

 

[Iapitus_The_Impaler]

Think of those as Pilots, before the series had fully become its own

 

[WeeklyBattles]

@Gargoyle No one with aura has gotten physical damage. Not one time.

 

[Wokistan]

I mean electricity isn't exactly a spiritual concept, and mindhax isn't exactly a physical one, in this case.

 

[WeeklyBattles]

@Wok Yes, 963 is in fact physical-based mind hax

 

[WeeklyBattles]

Aura users can still feel the sensation of being electrocuted, the heat of fire and lava, and the cold of ice, but those things in and of themselves cannot cause physical damage to them until their aura is down

 

[Schnee_One]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QACKAHen1vI

Blake gets stabbed by Adam and uses her semblance to escape afterwards

 

[Wokistan]

Physical based mindhax in the sense of playing around with hormones, or neurotransmitters, or electric signals, which this has no indications of being. Perhaps I should have said biological instead.