Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25110963-20160117025514/@comment-26397825-20160118081533

I grew up in NSW, a two hour train ride from the centre of Darling Harbour. Fun place, it's not that cliche. Now I live in a big old country city.

But yes, Future of RWBY. Pyhrra and the Maiden powers; will she get them? I was just listening to the director comentary of Volume 1, and Monty originally didn't want to reveal Pyrrha's inspiration "because of stuff that's going to happen next volume". Now, we know a lot of stuff got shunted to the third volume because of time constraints and shenanigans with the second volume, and we know that she's been asked to become the Fall Maiden. But I can't help but wonder if that is all that is going to happen to her?

I mean, there's the cliche 'she becomes the Fall Maiden, everything is good.' There's 'she becomes the Fall Maiden, but loses part of herself/something happens to her and she's changed afterwards.' There's 'she doesn't become the Fall Maiden at all, and Cinder does.' I wonder if perhaps she becomes the Fall Maiden, but then there's the big fight. She's going to die, and Cinder thinks she is going to get the rest of the power. Instead, Pyrrha remembers what Ozpin and Co said about the Maiden powers being transferred to a young female candidate if they were the last person the Maiden thought of.

So as she dies, she purposefully thinks of someone. Like Nora. Or Ruby. Or Velvet. Someone else, other than Cinder. And the powers transfer naturally, and because of the natural transferance it actually pulls the part of the power Cinder has into the new and proper Fall Maiden. Pyrrha wins, foils the bad guys plan, but at the cost of her own life. A pyrrhic victory.