Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-130.245.192.22-20170629055623/@comment-25936766-20170831224539

71.54.52.111 wrote: its implied that  semblence is based on personality, ruby being hyper and chipper effecting her semblence to super speed blake avoidence making her semblence being about avoiding conflict  yang temper setting her selmblence as anger based weiss  i dont know for weiss i dont really pay anention to her. Weiss has an hereditary Semblance. Personality is completely irrelevant in her case.

There is a fair point, when comparing V1 Ruby with her Speed Semblance, or Nora with her Electricity-Absorbtion. However, there are people who, if we followed that theory, their Semblances don't really fit their personality, or at least it doesn't seem like they do.

For example, Pyrrha. She's a 4-times Champion with great skill and talent, which makes people put her in a high pedestal and thus supposedly avoid socializing with her (which is kinda BS but whatever). This even makes up much of her "dilemma" which she described in V2.

However, she's an Ace because of her Semblance, which allows her to redirect weapons and bullets (which nearly-everyone uses) to make it easier for them to miss or be blocked. Even if she had skill and talent, she was not "The Invincible Girl" before she got her Semblance, and she didn't have that dilemma before she became the famous Champion that she is by V1.

Then there's Ren. His Semblance calms people down and reduces emotions and thus can be used to hide from Grimm. He got his Semblance while his home was razed by Grimm. While his Semblance is pretty much what he needed, it does not really fit his personality at that moment. He was a cheerful kid with no balls back then, what part of his Semblance reflects any of that?

Then there's Sun. His Semblance creates clones who...do stuff. Now, what part of his Semblance fits his personality as we've seen it since V1?

Even the comparisons of Yang and Blake with their Semblances are debatable.

-Blake clearly has, or had at least, a low opinion of herself. Her comparison of her Semblance to her self-perceived cowardice (for running away from the WF, and running away when RWY found out she was a faunus) doesn't mean her Semblance literally reflects that, but rather that it was simple self-deprecation.

Besides, she already had that Semblance even before she left the White Fang, before she first "ran away". So her Semblance truly reflecting how Blake "always runs away" is even more questionable.

-Yang uses her Semblance when she's angry, because when she's angry she wants to hit harder and her Semblance does exactly that. However, she also uses it even if she's not angry. We have seen Yang for multiple Volumes, she doesn't have Intermittent Explosive Disorder, and while cutting her hair is a trigger, she's otherwise not the kind of person to quickly get mad.

And the times we see her get angry for bigger reasons than "they cut my hair", she does have reasons to be irritated.