Talk:Neopolitan/@comment-26432591-20150526093734/@comment-4010415-20150527011248

Putting a knife to someone's throat doesn't only mean "I'm going to kill you if I can." It can also mean you're taking them hostage, like I said above. She took Roman hostage to keep him still and make everyone stop what they're doing, but also to keep the White Fang members from attacking her before she had a chance to reveal her cat ears and question them about what was going on.

It was a "Fight back, and you'll regret it. Attack me, and your boss gets it."

Not "I'm gonna kill you."

In No Brakes, she never went through with any actual movements to kill him. She pointed her sword at his throat as a way of making sure the fight was over because he couldn't get back up. Sure, she could've killed him right then, and she might have, but she never made any action to start trying to kill him.

Meanwhile, Neo did. Her intentions were clear and blatant. She was going to kill Yang. She prepared herself for it, made an action to do it, with no doubt that she was actually going to do it.