Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26226441-20180127223551/@comment-4141313-20180302230901

I think it prudent to highlight my old answer in order to see if their is any merit behind it:

BlizzardDragon wrote: SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: StickyPhantom wrote:

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As for the PTSD argument, I wouldn't call it PTSD, more just like a mental block. Seeing as the night she unlocked her SEW's could be considered the worst night of her life, it wouldn't be unreasonable to believe her psyche is blocking any desire to learn about SEW as a way to not remember that night. Would also explain why her SEW flared up when Cinder and Jaune charged each other. She immeadiently remembered witnessing Pyrrha die, and the worry that she may witness that again temporarily broke the block and triggered them. So it's not Pyrrha's death being remembered that triggered it, its remembering that night.

To be fair, that night is a pretty bad one for her. Just to go over the laundry list of crap she dealt with on that day:

1. Her sister is put under house arrest after assaulting a student she considered an acquaintance as said sister repeatedly proclaims her innocence despite the contrary, and her team is disqualified in the process.

2. She learns two people she considers her friends to have been deceiving them, and had orchastrated both her Sisters frameup, and were aiming to do something similar to two of her friends.

3. She sees someone she considered a friend brutally murdered by another friend as stuff suddenly goes to hell.

4. She sees someone she admired (Ironwood) possibly die in an explosion on his ship.

5. She witnesses a man (her mortal enemy who numerously tried to kill her, but a person still) swallowed alive in front of her as stuff continues to go to hell.

6. She returns to find her sister having lost an arm and her teammate having been stabbed in the abdomen, and learns two of her friends are still missing, then receives a call from one of them clearly on the verge of a mental break as he tells her the other friend is facing someone who beat Ozpin.

7. She rushes as fast as she can to get to said friend only to arrive two seconds too late and witness said friend impaled with an arrow, the culprit being another person she considered an acquaintance.

And to add to the craplist after the night in question:

8. She wakes up from a mini-coma and finds her sister to be mentally broken after that night, her partner having been dragged home by her abusive father, and her teammate having up and run off for no immeadiently discernible reason.

So, add all that crap together in the course of one night, along with the immeadiet aftermath, add a dash of her being only 16 years old and having an idealized version of being a huntsman, and then throw in the powers she recently learned about having first activated that very night, and you have a 16 year psyche forming a mental block on that night and the powers in a desperate bid to maintain her sanity without gaining PTSD, and any time she recalls a bit of that night she starts to break down, and if she recalls a larger portion of it the powers awaken. At least, thats the Watsonian answer.

The Doylistic answer is that Miles and Kerry suck at writing.