Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20170121144613/@comment-24994749-20170124143846

ACWeapons wrote: So if Nora was a poor, homeless girl, does that explain her enormous appetite? She never had enough to eat so now she eats a lot?

This is going to sound awful: but basically my dog. 84.195.99.91 wrote: Arkantos95 wrote: When your emotions are a part of your presence, calming them helps to mask it. I don't see how your emotions are part of your presence though. Only the Grimm can sense emotions so it seems odd that part of the Semblance would be specifically tailored to work on Grimm exclusively, too convenient.

Empathy is a way of emotion detection (there are even special brain cells dedicated to it), though based around visual and sound cues.

Some animals also can "sense" emotions in humans on the basis of smell.

And given Grimm have been a part of Remnant since before humanity, their ability to sense emotion counting emotions as part of one's presence isn't that out of left field.

173.31.210.67 wrote: I wonder if Ren's Semblance has any drawbacks? I mean Ren has always been a calm guy, but after watching this epiode I feel that it's because his Semblance permanently made him that way. I hope this won't be the case, but I think that everytime Ren uses his Semblance he looses a bit of his emotions. Hence why we've never seen Ren use it before.

On a side note, it might explain why Nora is.... Nora. Ren used his Semblance on her as well, so perhaps, to a small extent, some of her negative emotions were suppressed.

Maybe Ren has his semblance on almost 24/7, and that's why he tires in combat faster than most.