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DiegoAnime3000 wrote: Though it's also another reference to Pyrrha's death. That part explains why this spin-off isn't canon: The characters are aware that they're in a show. Just like in Red vs Blue Specials.

However, one could reason out that if these characters are pretending to live in a world where everything's fine then the fact that they  acknowledged Pyrrha's death shows that she was indeed dead in canon. They're just acting as if it never happened because this is a comedy show and everything is blown out of proportion. Well, her VA has already indicated that she is not going to be voicing Pyrrha anymore, at least in the canon RWBY series as I presume she is still voicing her in Chibi, because Pyrrha is gone. Hence any theory requires either that staff go back on their word and, in fact, against Monty's wishes, or that Pyrrha remains dead in every way that matters yet still is able to come back in some sense. Everything else is fan-fic material.