Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14061097-20160420195004/@comment-7622429-20160422153808

I think that, if characters are gonna come back at all, it needs to be tied to the greater lore at hand. Build it up, make it an idea in the audience minds, keep them invested and interested in what possibilities it could offer........ then subvert all expectations when you least expect it, and make us go, "WOW!~ WHAT A TWIST!"

For example, the easiest way I could see resurrection-style shenanigans going on would be expanding on the concept of the Soul, of Aura and Semblance, maybe even advanced robotics. Perhaps as we get late into the series, the characters could reflect on thsoe they've lost, all the while learning about how death isn't the end, how the soul always lives on, that sorta thing.

From this, major influential characters with big revelations to offer, maybe Ozpin or whatever, will bring up tales of the dead returning to the land of the living, maybe not exactly the same, in order to set the stage for our main characters postulating on whether or not undoing character deaths is the right thing or not. Like how Church was content to rot into nothingness before the others saved him.