Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171104074017/@comment-34633327-20171104164807

It was sweet seeing Yang and Weiss reunite. Weiss finally has someone to be with after learning Winter is gone. And, yes, the first thing I thought when that happened after "Aww" was "Freezerburn intensifies!", yes I tried to give up being a shipper, but I guess I too am shipping trash.

And Yang proves that outside of Vernal and Raven, the Branwen tribe is weak as shit. I mean, Yang, not even a full fledged huntsman, who has only had basic hand to hand combat for the past few weeks as any kind of combat, easily whiped the asses of a bunch of them, most in a single punch. I can only guess the Branwen Tribe is a threat at all because of Vernal and Raven.

Weiss growing the knight made me think of Rita Repulsa going "Make my monster grow!" XD

So we finally have confirmation on some info for semblance. The exact relationship between semblance and personality is unknown, and the activation requirement is all different. Sometimes it's stress like Ren's, sometimes it's just accidental like Ruby's (Was her using it in the Yang Short when she first did it?) And Ren's is confirmed Masking Emotion, which in turn confirms Grimm only see via a form of Heat Vision, just Negative Emotions rather than Heat Signature.

Nora's is the interesting part though. She said she found out her's when she was Struck by Lightning and didn't die. I say this is interesting because I believe it correlates to why she was in Kuroyuri. As we heard, Nora was said to look like a foreigner, so she is most likely not a native to Mistral or any of Anima. Now, she said she was struck by lightning. Lightning tends to only strike the tallest object in the vicinity, or if something such as a Lightning rod attracts it. So unless a young Nora was standing in a field or wearing a suit of armor, Lightning shouldn't have hit her first. But there are two other possibilities.

1. Nora was in an Airship when it happened, travelling too or from another Kingdom. We only know she is an orphan, is a foreigner, and was extremely timid when we first met her. The timidity could have been from shock, and the shock being from surviving an airship crashing. If the airship flew through a lightning storm (Which is dumb but possible) and the shock hurt everyone but her, and then the ship crashed, or, if the ship was attacked by a Grimm with Lightning Capabilities. We already know Grimm like the Sea Dragon can shoot Lightning, so it could be that the ship was attacked by a Grimm and she was the sole survivor.

2. Nora's family was attacked by someone with Lightning Dust. Nora's family could very well have been attacked in a manner like an assasination attempt, and the assailant could have used Lightning Dust to try and attack her family, she only surviving by her semblance. Afterall, the timidity could have been fear the people around her would hurt her like the one that killed her parents.

The nature of Nora's Semblance I'm saying is the key to her past.