Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-198.82.111.80-20160315173800/@comment-27350660-20160321152250

We're seeing Yang at pretty much the lowest point of her life, after the high point when she won the fight against Mercury. She's definitely going to suffer from this for a good while. Nightmares, doubt, self-loathing, self-pity. The works.

Adjusting to one-armed combat is an interesting possibility, but it would change Yang completely. She'd have to change her weapon and her fighting style. Maybe a gun. Maybe a sword. All of her current training would be useless, so she'd have to start from scratch. It's taken her years to get to her current level of competence, and she'll have to learn fast if she's responding to something that needs to happen now. She needs to come out stronger than before. It's one hell of a lot of effort.

At the moment, Yang is going nowhere. She needs some kind of drive to get her going again, spur her into action. Qrow hinted that he might be able to help Yang find her mother. Maybe her mother will find her. Raven is a sword fighter, so maybe Raven could kidnap Yang and put a sword in her hand.

An evolution of Yang into a different type of fighter would be a great story, but it would take a lot of story-time, and she's had a fair bit of time in the spotlight already. So I think they're just going to make her a lot meaner than she is now and give her a new arm.