Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-28171999-20170823140313/@comment-25936766-20170829193326

"They both deal with obstacles directly, are very stubborn, and see strength as all-important in a fight........Tai himself confirmed this in "Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back."

But Tai hasn't seen Raven in more than 15 years. And we have only really seen current Raven, not 17-ish years old Raven. And then we get something that can be summed up as "Told, but not Shown".

1) We have seen Raven being stubborn, in a way. But we haven't seen Yang being truly stubborn. At most, foolish and perseverant, but only in fights, not in personality.

2) We have seen how Yang fights, with her strategies always boiling down to "Punch. If hit, punch harder with Semblance. Repeat until Win". Combat-wise, that IS the most direct way to solve things.

However, that doesn't mean she tries to solve all her issues by brute force before trying anything else. At the same time, we haven't actually seen Raven deal with any "obstacles", and thus can't really compare them.

Unless you count how she dealt with Qrow not answering her question. Something she responded to via "answer the damn question or I'm leaving".

3) And then we have the strength part. In Yang's case is pretty much true, but we haven't seen Raven fight (her brief slashes at Neo hardly count as a fight). While Raven has darwinistic opinions, that doesn't mean she treats brute force as the only thing of value in a fight, over things like "Skill" or "Inteligence" or "Tactical Capability".

Overall, it may be GMK's fault for loving the use of "Tell" over "Show", but Taiyang only knows old Raven, not modern Raven. While WE, the audience, only know modern Raven. And we don't know enough of modern Raven to say Yang is so much like her.

"He's glad he sees so much of Raven in Yang, but thankfully not all of her. We should all be thankful for that."

You're being melodramatic again....