Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-198.82.111.80-20160315173800

So, I don't know about the rest of you, but like Bethany Hamilton (see the movie Soul Surfer) who decided to keep surfing even after her arm was bitten off by a shark, I'd like to see Yang find her confidence again and get back in the game even after losing her arm. It's just not satisfying to see her broken in body and spirit. She's got to make a come back. The question is how?

Well, the first and most obvious answer is that she gets a badass cybernetic arm, like Gen. Ironwood, and goes back to "punching all the things" (thank you Boomstick). Only this time with some cyber upgrades. But what if she chose a different route? What if getting her arm cut off really stirred something in her that has mad her take a step back and think about things? What if, instead of getting a cyber arm, she chose to leave the arm off as a reminder of what happens when you just rush into a fight without thinking, and radically change her fighting style to reflect her new paradigm? What would Yang be like if she were to become a one-armed kung fu master? Instead of explosive, she might represent a slow burn. Instead of a rushing in like a bull she could analyze and pick apart her opponents. Perhaps, even with an arm missing, her new fighting style and outlook on life might allow her to beat opponents who previously bested her?

For ideas on what such a fighting style might look like I recommend you look up the 1979 kung fu movie "Crippled Masters" on Youtube. Also there are real life martial arts masters who are missing limbs. For example Jessica Cox, a black belt in Tae Kwan Do who has no arms and can still fly an air plane and wield nunchuks.

Personally, and this may just be me, I think it would even more badass and meaningful for Yang to go the "one-armed kung fu master" route than to just get a cyber arm and go back to punching all the things. But please, throw your own 2 cents in! Do you agree, disagree, or have a different idea, and why/what is it? 