Talk:Maria Calavera/@comment-35434444-20190107100116

Maria's semblance can be thought of as an inversion of Yang's semblance: Yang gains power by sustaining damage and returns it through raw physical force, whereas Maria's semblance is focused on gaining an advantage by evading damage, but simaltaneously repositioning herself on the enemy.

An opponent nessessarily lets some of his guard down in the process of making an attack, so if you're savy enough to dodge and strike back at the same time, you can use his attack -- his "energy" -- against him. Both semblances can be thought of as transactional manipulations of energy that causes the opponent to more or less defeat himself. 無為 (Wu wei.)

However, while the two approaches are explicitly different, they are implicitly one. Both huntresses thrive on reckless abandon. Both are extemely intuitive fighters who rely on the unconscious processes of thier bodies over the conscious capacities of thier minds as is the case with Blake and Weiss.