Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-1860621-20140815015907/@comment-7472785-20140824095950

Yang's Semblance combines a number of side-effects that most people only have one of at best, and is uncontrollable; she may very well have hurt people in the past because she hadn't yet adopted her perpetually happy outlook to keep her semblance from running amok. She's better now, obviously, but when she was a kid, she might have been deemed "misshapen" for that. I like the idea of Yang's semblance being emotionally triggered - I have a slightly dissenting opinion on it being totally unconsciously activated. Her bumping the fists together does seem to be a sort of activation - she does it in the food fight with the turkeys on her hands even, so when not equipping Ember Celica, which means it is NOT a weapon related action.