Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-71.200.208.218-20160219212133/@comment-9464517-20160221171730

LegionZero wrote:

1) Partners: what? They are a 4 man squad they are all partners. How is that evidence for? Black Sun and Arctic Ocean are interteam, almost canon couplings.

2)  Tender moment: Yang needed to relate to her before telling her why the things she is doing is stupid. Establish common ground to establish credibility. I'll give you some slack on the dance but girls do dance with eachother quite often.

3) crying over doubt: one of her best friends and teammates might not believe her. Someone who she is suppose to trust her life with and is suppose to be trusted to have. Yea, thats upsetting.

4) crying over stabbing: Ruby cried over Penny, sooo i dont see the relevnce. Yangs  friend is about to die. Right before her eyes. Its also the first time we have seen potentially fatal injury. Also upsetting.

5) Horrified at dismemberment: again, the 1st time potentially fatal injury has occurred. Happens to one of her best friends. From an enemy that neither of them stands a chance against, who also seems to be her former lover. Horrifying and upsetting indeed.

6) Attention on Yang only: everyone else is pretty much fine and at worst had a broken bone. Yang is missing most of her arm. Gone. Not coming back by any conventional means. That and she lost it protecting her, she witnessed it happen. She is going to be by her side.

7) Blake running: Blake ran because she Adam wants her and to destroy her world. To protect EVERYONE she took off. And considering shes jumping around Beacon, she mugjt be trying to find Adam and get revenge.

8) Yang is angry: Duh shes angry. Shes angry about a lot of things. She pretty much has given up being a Huntress due to missing an arm. Her school has been destroyed, her team has disbanded, oh yea, her arm is gone. and to top it off one of her best friends just up and leaves in a time when everything is falling apart. A kind of time she believed Blake would be there. 1) This was the slightest piece of 'evidence for' that I submitted, but there is still a certain degree of reasoning behind it. The fact that they are partners (and by that I mean specifically partners - remember the initiation?) allows for a greater degree of closeness between the two than with Weiss or Ruby - well, not so much Ruby in Yang's case, as they are sisters after all - or members of different teams. As partners, they would presumably be encouraged to work together in projects and operations within school. Like I say, pretty weak evidence. It's more based on conjecture than established facts within the show, but at the same time it should not be completely dismissed out-of-hand.

2) I know why Yang spoke to Blake. I'm more interested in her specific actions during the conversation. The gentle manner in which she talks to Blake, talks about her past and eventually hugs her... It all seems a little too intimate for a normal friendship IMO. Also, if girls dancing with other girls in a platonic fashion is so conventional in Remnant, then why did all of the other couples at the dance consist of heterosexual pairings?

3) It's upsetting, sure, but to the point of tears? Do you think she would be weeping if, say, Weiss had chosen not to believe her? Note the way she pronounces Blake's name. It's almost a whisper, as if she had been afraid to even entertain the possibility of Blake disbelieving her, and now, being confronted with that reality, is completely distraught by it.

4) Well, no, she didn't cry over the stabbing, though she did have tears in her eyes as she leapt towards Adam. I hate to return to the Weiss example again, but I highly doubt that Yang would have reacted so passionately if it had been her in that scenario and not Blake. Yang literally screamed with rage as she flung herself towards Adam. Obviously Yang is frequently moved to fits of anger within the show but HOLY SHIT she has never reacted like that before, not even when Ruby was about to be turned into bird food in Players and Pieces. The fact that she would react so strongly to seeing Blake suffer a stab wound, which, in a world where everyone has Aura to protect them, might not have meant all that much, demonstrates the strength of her bond with Blake. I see that as more than friendship.

5) Eh, yeah. Obviously she is shocked after the dismemberment, just as most other characters would be in that scenario. I guess I was more referring to her expression of extreme fear and terror immediately preceding the act, and while I would perhaps have expected slightly less of such a strong showing of emotion from any other character in that situation (except Ruby, obviously), I think you're probably right about this one. A bit negligible perhaps, though once again I would not discard it completely.

6) My answer to this is pretty much the same as my answer to 2). I know why Blake's attentions are focused on Yang, but her actions in this time period are what interest me. She holds on to Yang desperately and doesn't let go for the remainder of that scene, even though Yang is unconscious during that time. I really feel like the point about Sun is worth noting - though that in and of itself is not specifically evidence in favour of Bumblebee, it is certainly a little evidence against Black Sun.

7) I definitely think that's part of the reason but don't discount her guilt as being a strong factor. I think the fact that she ran away indicates that she feels a great deal of shame regarding the whole scenario, even though it was not directly her fault.

8) "A kind of time she believed Blake would be there." That's just it, though. She needed Blake to be with her in her time of difficulty, and the fact that Blake has run away has left Yang feeling hurt and betrayed. The extent of her anger towards Blake suggests that she felt that they were more than just friends, IMO.

I know I'm being rambling and inconcise about this, so sorry about that. There are definitely people out there who can defend this ship more articulately than I ever could.