Talk:Semblance/@comment-69.76.137.72-20170217235939/@comment-4010415-20170218012652

We didn't hear Emerald's Semblance noise until she made Penny's swords multiply out of control, however, and her job was to make Pyrrha attack Penny with magnetism. We already saw that Pyrrha was accidentally using her Semblance due to her negative emotions when she accidentally slammed Jaune against a wall, and she was still feeling a lot of negativity when the match against Penny started.

It really seems that an abundance of negative emotion can cause someone to accidentally activate their Semblance. That's likely why Weiss summoned a Boarbatusk in the middle of the charity ball and seemed so confused and surprised about it.

I think our earliest example of negative emotions leading to accidental Semblance activation is Yang, right under our noses. Every time she gets angry, her Semblance activates, even outside of battle, as evidenced when her eyes turned red in Burning the Candle, as well as when she got frustrated with all the goofiness in the beginning of Players and Pieces.