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73.172.128.127 wrote:

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There you go guys, see what you can make of it! I think it's pretty obvious that, aside from any association with her Semblance, Yang's eye colour change is directly associated with her mood. They go red when she gets really angry or, more specifically, when her body gets into "fight or flight" mode. This may also trigger her Semblance on a subconscious level (Jaune has proven that a Semblance can trigger without conscious awareness or even knowledge of its existence).

Understandably, confronting a woman who abandoned her essentially at birth and has been absent from her life ever since, even when she needed her, Yang is rather angry. As someone else has suggested, I'm expecting the rage to end with her sobbing on Raven's shoulder after a few badly-aimed punches.