Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-25936766-20160816204452

Alhazad2003 wrote: 1-Basically this, though I wouldn't say Adam effortlessly cut off Yang's arm............ 2-I highly doubt she'll ever be able to take him on alone, let alone take him down. And even if she could, that would draw out Cinder who would give her the Pyrrha treatment in short order. 1-So let's see, you're saying that the only reason Adam cut Yang's arm instead of just killing her outright, was because he had not "absorbed" enough, did not charge enough, and/or just because Yang was tougher than apparently everyone else (with Aura, which she did not have when she got her hand sliced off).

Here are my problems with this:

A) The idea of Adam's Semblance being absorbing energy or anything, is just an assumption. If so, he would have no need to charge anything. In the Black Trailer, he even asked Blake to give him some time while he charged the attack. If his Semblance required absorbing anything, why not attack the mech himself to absorb any attacks it launched? Why charge as well?

And with the beam, I seriously doubt Adam absorbed anything. It only looks like he simply blocked the beam, something that's been done a million times in fiction, before unleashing the charged slash.

B) It's irrelevant if Yang could take more damage with Aura remaining than Blake comparatively could, because at that point her Aura was taken down and any resistance it offered her was non-existent. She was as squishy as a normal person at that moment. Her Aura, what made her take so much damage and keep standing, was down to 0.

Yang, who as you said, could survive being punched through concrete pillars, had her hand sliced off and her Aura taken down instantly by Adam. If Adam was able to slice off her hand, he was more than capable of slicing off her head, legs, waist.

So why did he not kill her right there? Because he didn't feel like killing her off instantly. For what (in-universe) reason, who knows, but had Adam wanted, Yang would have lost far more than just a hand.

2->Assuming Cinder would know.

>Assuming Cinder would even be in the condition to do anything (remember there's a likely chance she's frozen like the Dragon, or worse, and we don't know if it's temporary).

>Assuming Cinder would not be busy with something more important (like trying to kill the SEW).