Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160216033644/@comment-14909251-20160419230825

Arkantos95 wrote: Okay, but you're still ignoring the fact that the machinery you're relying on for this was severly fucked up.

We don't know what damage it sustained other than the glass breaking. That would not necessarily prevent it from resuscitating her.

And another thing, it was an Aura transferer. They had a whole conversation about Atlas' experiments on Aura, which is a physical manifestation of the soul.

I'm not sure what your point is here. The machines were keeping her stable so they don't just function as a means of transferring Aura.

And why do you keep ignoring the fact that Amber was already actively dying? That tank wasn't healing her, it was just slowing the process of death. That was the entire point of the time limit they gave Pyrrha.

Do you have some basis for this claim? They don't state in the series that she was actively dying, only that she was alive for now and if she died her powers would likely go to the person who killed her. I was under the impression that they were pushing her to act because they knew the enemy was setting plans into motion and they wanted every resource available to stop her ASAP.

You're the one that said their souls would be fused. Fused means two into one, not two people cooperating. It wouldn't be Amber or Pyrrha at that point, it would basically be an adult newborn.

Fusion doesn't inherently mean it would be like a new mind or new Aura. I also don't think it would necessarily happen immediately. What I really envision is that Amber's consciousness would eventually become dominant, but all the memories and many of the personality traits of Pyrrha would remain in addition to Amber's own memories. That allows for Pyrrha to be "gone" without being truly dead.

Another thing, why is muscle atrophy a silly thing to grasp at for someone who hasn't moved in almost a year? I don't care what tech they've got, there's nothing you can do to prevent that barring actual movement.

It's silly because it is just reaching. We allow for all sorts of crazy technological devices and literal magic, but the idea that her muscles could be kept in normal shape is unthinkable. Atrophy is a cellular and molecular process and like any such process it can theoretically be controlled. Here in the real world that isn't really a thing, but we don't have anything like what they have in Remnant.

And finally, there's the narrative reason for not bringing her back in any capacity: It's terrible writing to bring back the dead because it removes the consequence of death. Once you've revived one person there's no reason to feel tension for characters when they're in a dangerous situation because they can just be brought back by some magical bullshit.

The only thing that makes for terrible writing is terrible writing. We're not talking some DBZ-style "we'll just wish them back" kind of thing. It isn't likely to be repeated given all the moral and personal objections to doing it at all, not to mention it isn't a particularly convenient means of reviving people. This would be essentially a one-off.

I also like how you conveiniently skip over the bits of arguments you can't argue against.

I believe I addressed every argument made, though if I addressed an argument in response to someone else in the same post then I didn't address it again when someone else raised it.