Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33484193-20171112020744/@comment-4010415-20171113045452

I don't think he did it on purpose.

I think it was just a result of how her Aura was distributed across her body, with one of the weakest points being her arm. Like I described in my post above, her arm had less surface area than her torso and her torso contains vital organs which makes it a priority over her arm. Thus, it's reasonable to think that she had more Aura protecting her torso than her arm. That mixed with the fact that Adam hadn't absorbed very much energy for his Semblance resulted in Yang only losing an arm.

Like I said in my earlier post, compare two measly bullets from Blake to a giant laser from a huge robot. Adam's Semblance just didn't have anywhere near as much damage behind it when he used it on Yang as it did when he used it on the giant robot in the Black Trailer because he did not absorb anywhere near as much energy.

It's just luck that Yang had just enough Aura and Adam had not absorbed quite enough energy.

Once she landed on the floor unconscious, Adam started walking over to her like he wanted to finish her off, but then Blake jumped in the way.