Talk:Semblance/@comment-38131076-20190111144004

Okay, so this is more of a 'What-if" in the case of Yang's semblance.

So hear me out, Yang's semblance is the ability to absorb nearly any form of harmful energy in order to boost her physical strength, right? For the sake of repetition, I'll call it 'Burst-Counter'. From what we've seen, the damage delt only results in an increase to her strength. At the same time, we also know that semblances can grow and evolve depending on the user, and that semblances are unlocked through stress or training.

That being said, how does this sound: Yang's semblance during a time of intense stress (say for example, Ruby is dying) evolves, and physically changes her. Instead of normal fire coing from her hair, her hair turns entirely white-hot, and her eyes go from red to yellow (along with a slight increase to her height and muscle-mass). I'll call this 'Dragon-Fire'.

Where Burst-Counter needed to take damage in order to activate, Dragon-Fire is an immediate boost in all of her physical and auric attributes (she gets stronger, faster, more durable, and a larger pool of aura) and in addition to this, she automatically absorbes all forms of energy (from kinetic, to auric, to even life-energy) to further increase her overall power and maintain the form longer as it still drains a lot of aura to stay active.

Sound good so far? Well, the downside to Dragon-Fire is that while she theoretically could stay in this form forever by continuously absorbing energy, her body will never be able to handle this state, even if she somehow had an infinite supply of aura. It's basically like trying to contain an infinitely exploding grenade in a soup-can, her aura cannot heal her fast enough to cope with that kind of damage. As such, anytime past three minutes will cause her body (and soul) to pull a quick reflex and immediately shut it off. If it shuts off but she's still in her enraged state of mind, she can forcefully turn it back on, at the risk of outright dying.

How does that sound?