Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-35455126-20190305021005/@comment-4010415-20190309200620

Except Yang can store the energy that she receives for her Semblance to some extent and thus use it without having taken damage in that particular fight, as seen in the Beacon Initiation when she uses her Semblance on an Ursa without having taken a single hit.

I stand firm that her eyes turning red is part of the visual representation of her Semblance and that she simply has a tendency to activate her Semblance to some degree by accident when she gets too angry. In Volume 6, Ruby has outright mentioned a connection between emotion and Semblance, and we've seen Pyrrha and Weiss accidentally use their Semblances when feeling a heightened amount of negative emotions. Yang is merely the first and most frequent example of such a phenomena, due to her anger issues.

One of the times we see her activate her Semblance out of anger without actually using it against anyone or anything was in Players and Pieces, when she got frustrated with all the wacky antics going on around her. It was more than just red eyes that tipped us off to her Semblance use, it was also the burst of fire around her.

As for Saiyan's example in Volume 2, where Yang gets frustrated with Blake in Burning the Candle, I must point out that we hear a fire crackling sound effect when this happens. Listen closely.

Also, was she specifically angry when she used her Semblance against the Paladin in Volume 2, or when she caught Adam's sword in Volume 6? People tend to grimace and look serious during fights. I don't think her expressions where of anger in either of those scenes.