User blog comment:SelenaZephyr/An Open Letter to the Community/@comment-5431934-20140120171820

The thing that I disagree with the most in the grading process is when a character is rejected for, say, having multiple weapons. Simple because canon characters appear to only use one weapon that they are particularly skilled in is no cause for rejecting a character for usage of additional weapons. Compare the henchmen, obviously weaker fighters who use multiple types of weapons. A matter of what clearly appears to be personal choice does not affect what we can do with our characters.

In general, specific aspects being rejected for what seems to be canonical personal choices, I don't agree with. Whereas some reviewers say that a Semblance must work fluidly with the combat style, as do canonical semblances, I feel it's more of they have altered their combat style to work better with their semblance, such as Pyrrha with her shield. This would lead to semblances that could be vastly different from the combat style, yet still fit. Think Jaune, whose semblance appears to be some form of protective energy - does his combat style involve taking hits from his opponents? No; but it's always possible that he will rework his style of combat to more easily fit his semblance and become a more effective fighter.

On a side note, I disagree with the reasoning for why Aura and Semblance are distinctly connected. Multiple users use the reasoning of how using either of them appear to drain a character's stamina and energy - Ren, tired after killing the KT, Weiss exhausted after Glyphing all over the place, etc, etc. In my opinion, this does not suggest a distinct correlation between the usage of the two. True, they both appear to drain one's stamina, but so does jogging around, or excersising, or any of the multitude of physical activities. Does this mean that anything that requires effort is specifically connected to Aura and Semblance?

Ragadorus (talk) 17:18, January 20, 2014 (UTC)