Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140815002519/@comment-24994749-20140815043609

Shadow at Morning wrote: Certainly seems an odd way to say it, if she just means Semblance.

I have been going over the lyrics of both "I Burn" and "Gold" to see if I could find something but I cant. "I Burn" is pretty much a description of what goes down when she breaks loose at the club and "Gold" sounds like her promising to always stay by Ruby's side after Summer's death. None at the Club seems to have a particular reaction to her when she goes berserk mode during the trailer but that might just be that the whole thing of becoming stronger every time something hits her isn't visible. The words opening her trailer do suddenly become more interesting:

"Scathing eyes ask that we be symmetrical, one sided and easily processed. Yet every misshapen spark's unseen beauty is greater than its would be judgement."

I have never really been sure about what they meant, unlike with the other trailers with which with time they became rather obvious. All I can point out is that Yang's semblance is the only one so far that has caused her eyes to change colours when activated.

75.167.5.96 wrote: Correction: we know how Ruby thinks Yang's power works. We also have evidence that she doesn't need to be hit to power up from back in Players and Pieces. When everyone starts showing up at the temple in odd ways, she gets irritated and fires up while stating she 'can't take it any more' and then making a demand for at least two minutes of normalcy.

Which implies Ruby is over-simplifying how Yang's Semblance functions. That the anger generated by being hit (like how a WoW warrior or D3 barbarian's rage meter works, but without Rage being generated by damage caused by the individual) is the actual source of power, rather than the actual energy of the impact.

Actually, there is no contradiction between what Ruby said and what we have seen. Yang's becomes stranger by absorbing the energy of the hits she takes, that doesn't mean she doesn't have energy before getting hit or that energy from previous fight might not remain stored.