User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: The motivation of a Huntress/@comment-23.239.47.154-20141004174324/@comment-24218038-20141004174923

There are other, simpler ways to do both. That doesn't mean you're wrong, just that it isn't motivation enough to go through years of fighting schools only to get away from your family.

Yang could very well leave anytime she wanted to find her mom. She doesn't have to go through grueling classes to do so.

Those are just by-products of what they want to do.