Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-162.197.96.15-20150719175739/@comment-24198837-20150719233956

Well, it might not work. Ruby's speed is semblance/aura related; it's essentially magical. She converts her aura into speed, presumably, so she can just become faster.

Yang's was stated to absorb force, which she could re-direct. The means of how she does this are Semblance-based, but the forces are not - in other words, she absorbs and re-directs the same forces. Her semblance doesn't provide any force.

I always saw it this way - getting hit doesn't actually fuel her semblance; her semblance doesn't make her stronger. Her semblance is the passive ability to absorb and re-direct energy, and getting stronger when hit is just an application.

Having someone being hit increase their speed would mean the attacks were directly fueling their semblance, which is contrary to everything else we've been shown, where being hit drains your aura.

Plus, Yang can likely already do this (Get faster when hurt), by focusing some of her stored energy on her feet while making quick, normal strength punches intead of normal strength, powerful punches.

Then again, RT makes the rules and Semblance doesn't really seem to follow many, so who knows. It's an interesting concept.