Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160214074328/@comment-10390252-20160215094508

The Pyrrha theory is a bit contrived IMO (and I'm posti8ng as a 'dead but not gone' fan). I don't think that Emerald is emotionally or morally capable of defying Cinder on that level. Not yet; it would require a major shock for her to work in such a focussed way to defy her. If the attempted razing of Vale had made her make a heel-face turn, she'd have just run away and maybe joined the other Huntsmen in fighting the Grimm and White Fang (assuming she wasn't so scared of Cinder that she just aimed for the nearest horizon and started running).

At the risk of repeating myself, if Pyrrha has cheated death in any way, it is either Cinder's doing or her own.