Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171216025048/@comment-10390252-20171218132932

FWIW, the attack on Beacon took a lot of people's choices away. The crisis was suddenly upon them and what people individually wanted was no longer a relevant issue; the protection of human and faunus civilisation was far more important at that point and Pyrrha knew that. As a Huntress, she had to put the safety and futures of the greater number above herself. That comes with the job.

Ozpin was out of viable alternative choices at this point too; he was hardly the manipulative chess-master. Rather he was the leader trying to squeeze a win out of what was shaping up to be a cataclysmic defeat.