Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160109160106/@comment-26872876-20160110010522

The Trumpet player of wrote: What part of battle causes someone too act irrationaly? I don't know so I can't judge.But is a tournament where you most likely won't get killed or maimed the same as what ironwood experienced?

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. War can break people. Think about all the stress and adrenaline that would be pumping through you in a real battle to the death. Especially if you put it into a warzone on a national/international level. It's why some people desert the military, and others end up killing themselves. Some can't live with what they had to do to live. Others feel guilty that they live while others die.

That being said, I don't think Ironwood's approach works for Yang. She wasn't in a battle situation to the point where she'd have a warzone mindset.

Instead, I'd say the mind set Yang would be most likely to be percieved in would be an athletic high based adrenaline rush. Look at UFC and Boxing matches. There are a lot of times a fighter will land a blow that, to us, clearly knocks out their enemy, but they keep on going causing the Referee to step in and stop the fight. However, since the situation was so one sided, it came with a negative reaction.