Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-27170788-20170430010514/@comment-4010415-20170430121805

Technically, Pyrrha was actually shot in the ankle, not the heel. The arrow wasn't anywhere in her foot, but rather above her foot.

When Achilles disguised himself as a red-haired woman, he pretended his name was Pyrrha, so that could be one reason why CRWBY named her Pyrrha. That, and with Nikos meaning "victor of the people", her name is almost "pyrrhic victory", the term for "victory at a great cost".

Technically, the good guys didn't achieve victory at the Fall of Beacon, but due to the loss of Pyrrha's life, Ruby accidentally activated her silver eye powers, thus incapacitating the Dragon so it couldn't do any more damage and making Cinder retreat before she could search for the Relic. Pyrrha's death indirectly stopped the situation from getting even worse and kept the Relic safe.

As for the theory of Pyrrha rising from the ashes like a phoenix... Could be coincidence, but I guess we can't 100% rule it out. If they had been able to actually gather all of her ashes, then I would say that maybe they could use the Creation Relic on the ashes to reform her body, but the ashes all scattered in the wind and are long gone now.