Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160110165745/@comment-27121579-20160112232728

Scarcrow11 wrote: I can't be bothered to read through all these replies, so this may have been thought of before.

What if, during the fight, Pyrrha tries to use her semblance minimally, but ends up completely tearing Penny apart. Someone on team CMSN could make the illusion of penny having flesh and blood rather than mechanical bits (maybe Neo to the whole stadium?), thus completely outing the host nation of a chance of winning the tournament. Ruby could try and tell people that she is a robot, and so could Ironwood, but this puts them at a dilemma, cause that info is a double-edged sword.

On one hand, it proves that there were illusory shenanigans going on during their match, giving doubt that what happened to Yang and Coco was some combat-adrenaline bullshit and that it might have been an illusion. Hopefully, someone (probably a teacher or someone important) will notice that the two went up against the same team.

On the other hand, it would reveal that Atlas has been using a mechanical fighter in the tournament, and one that has personality and aura to boot. This probably has all manner of negative impacts on Ironwood. This could even escalate in an investigation of their "aura research" department, leading to (possibly) the public finding out about the maidens being more than a myth and that one of them has part of their power removed.

EDIT: Ruby would want to make the info known so that she could clear her sister's and Pyrrha's name, and Ironwood would want to keep it secret because of the moral ambiguity behind the project. That's actually a pretty good theory. But I don't know how hard it would be for Neo to cast an illusion around the whole stadium. That'd be pretty intense.