Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20171011224301/@comment-4010415-20171015155619

2A02:1810:9509:B00:31B6:615E:D50:C288 wrote: What is activating though? Yang's Semblance isn't an anger-induced strength boost, it's increasing the damage she deals by taking damage herself. How could this physically activate without getting hit first? With other Semblances it can make sense that you could lose control due to an emotional outburst but Yang's literally can only be activated through outside interference. I don't see how any level of emotion can change that. "Activate", as in choose to start using the energy that she has built up from getting hit.

Half of her Semblance is passive: Gaining energy from getting hit.

The other half is activating it: Using that energy to strengthen her hits.

When I say that she activates it, I mean that she starts using the energy that she has stored to strengthen her hits. That's when her eyes turn red, her hair starts glowing, and she usually also either has fire on her hair or creates a burst of fire around her. That part of her Semblance is not automatically triggered just because she took a hit. She chooses when to start using that energy she built up.

However, when she gets too angry, she accidentally starts tapping into that energy and strengthening her attacks with it.

It's strange that Weiss' angry and emotional outburst at the charity ball would cause her to summon her Boarbatusk completely by accident, but it happened.