User blog comment:Aljohn Salceda/Aura (RWBY) and Stands (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)/@comment-26907384-20160726172243

Hmm. . .as a fan of both series, I feel that having the two of them would be a bit redundant.

When I think about it, I'd say that a stand is a lot like a semblance, just given a distinct form (Ghostly whatever that can't be seen by most people). Since a Stand is the personification of a person's fighting spirit (at its base anyway) I feel like you could say that they already have an aura of sorts.

The pricipals of both Stands and Aura are fundementally the same, so if they both existed in the same world, I feel like you'd have to dedicate at least one person to constantly telling everyone else how to tell the two apart. That in and of itself is an interesting idea.

The major difference between them, or so I see, is that one has to have some control of aura to bring out their semblance. I haven't yet seen a case where someone has one and can't use it to their own ability no matter how limited. Whereas there have been cases like with Holly Kujo-Joestar where she had a Stand but no ability to control it and it almost killed her.

So I guess Stands can be harmful to their users without their awareness, and an aura or semblance isn't. Or at least I don't think anyone uses a semblance without being slightly aware of the drawbacks it may have.