Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20141011082048/@comment-27083726-20151102050358

Finally, since Semblances are a reflection of a certain aspect of a character's personality, either the vanity that Yang displays regarding her hair is the aspect that is allueded to, or her strength/resilience of her character. I always thought of Yang's semblance as a reflection of her mother hen role in the group. She is designed to take a hit for someone else and come back stronger. I like to think of her as an emotional-tank as well. From what she said in "Burning the Candle" I kind of got the feeling she took the full brunt of responsibility over Ruby when Summer died, and because of this she defaults into "others first".