Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20141011082048/@comment-4010415-20141011121907

If we're right in our assumption about what Lindsay said and she was telling the truth, it also explains why Yang gets so pissed and defensive when someone or something damages her hair. The shorter her hair, the shorter her meter. Sure, that means that her meter gets filled up quicker, but it also means less power. She keeps her hair long because more hair means she can build up and store more power. If someone were to cut her hair, she would be weaker.

I think it's reasonable to think that her hair does have something to do with it.


 * Like I said, she's very defensive of her hair. Cut it or rip it out, and she'll use that energy she has stored to beat the shit out of you.


 * When she's using her semblance, her hair becomes enveloped in flames.


 * Meanwhile, am I the only one who noticed that her hair looked rather... different when she was standing back up after the Paladin beat her down? It's more noticeable toward the bottom of her hair. It suddenly looks glowing and transparent, compared to how it usually looks vivid and opaque. Not the usual brightness from fire. There wasn't fire yet.

Look closely at her hair in the bottom left over her belt in this screenshot. You can see her belt through her hair. It's usually not like that at all. The only part of any of the girls' hair that you can ever see through is their bangs (fringe, whatever, the part over their forehead) so you can see their eyebrows.

Compare that to how her hair usually looks, like in this screenshot where you absolutely positively cannot see her arm through the bottom of her hair.

Anyway, yeah, I think she has at least two limits.


 * Her hair, like I've been rambling on and on about here. There's only so much energy she can store in her hair, and if something happens to it that makes it shorter, that's a lot less storage space.


 * Her... HP, so to speak. There's only so much of a beating that she can take. It's worse if she wastes all that energy, such as when she gets angry, or if she uses it all up to take out weaker foes than what's up next. And what happens if she faces someone who can dodge, or somehow deflect, her attacks? They can keep whittling away at her.