Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-101.160.173.208-20130420133315/@comment-24113789-20150919214157

You guys are making good arguments and all, but I'm not really convinced. Honestly I think you guys care a lot more about this than I do, which weirdly offends me? Idk. I'm probably just hormonal, but I seem to be getting upset. That's probably unreasonable-- no, it's definitely unreasonable.

Anyways. Try to be a sensible person, Final. Actually, I already knew everything you guys have said, but I still think the alternate faerie tale references are there, intentional or not.

As for Pyrrhic victory... uh, I have no idea what your question means. I mean, Pyrrhic victory is a thing? I've heard theories that Pyrrha will achieve one; but even if she doesn't, the reference is still there. It's not as significant as the references to Achilles, I'll grant you; but it is there, which is all I'm saying. I'm not saying that Pyrrha isn't Achilles, or that Nora isn't Thor, or that Weiss isn't Snow White; I'm just saying they bring to mind more than one tale: as opposed to arguing that Pyrrha and Nora and Weiss can't have similarities to Pyrrhus and the Queen of Hearts and the Snow Queen because they have references to Achilles and Thor and Snow White too.

I think the part of my argument that your missing most pointedly is when I said, "canon or not". I recognize that most of these references are probably unintentional (not Pyrrhic victory, though; that one is probably deliberate). It just doesn't make them any less interesting to me. If anything, it makes them more so.