Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-29137170-20160730183952

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: Pyrrha, to be clear, wasn't killed by the arrow in her heel and Cinder was not inspired by the character who killed Achilles. So it is not as if it follows their story perfectly in every respect. However, it is misguided to make such a deliberate choice in having a team of characters inspired by figures who had untimely deaths and have one suffer an untimely death in a manner that alludes to the inspiration's untimely death then just say it doesn't apply to the rest of them. It ends up looking like the writers are inconsistent. the character of pyrrha was to meet a prescribed role, with a target and expectations people had for her that leda his death an ironic touch (she finished fulfilling the destiny of its namesake) and can be interpreted as a message against fatalism, if she had not been so obsessed with what he believed meet his destiny on her own and would have expected the help of Glinda and qrow could have survived.

instead the character jaune is to overcome the low expectations people have of it, learn to accept help and change what it sees as its destiny as a failure; therefore makes perfect narrative sense that when jaune faced with a situation like joan of arc faced, jaune succeed and survive where joan of failure arc and died, because unlike pyrrha, jaune not fight to fulfill a destiny, struggle to change their fate, struggle to get and be what anyone thinks can become (unlike pyrrha whose character was to meet the specific purpose, the character jaune is to challenge the particular destination).

It would be a good way to transmintir that the destination is not immutable and you can make your own destiny. you understand what I'm saying