Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-4141313-20181229085742/@comment-37941136-20181229131723

I disagee with the part of her death being necessary to the other characters. People seem to have it in their head that only the death of loved ones can really motivate someone to get stuff done. But if the other party is dead the resulting feelings may also be of not much point in fighting on, that there are not that many important things left to protect or even the going down the path of revenge. And that sometimes ruins characters, it's not always just growth.

But I think that having someone to protect or fighting for someone is a much stronger motivator. It took them several months to get off their asses, but say if they had to rescue Pyrrha from I am sure they would muster everything they had in at most a few days. The resulting story would also not have "dark vengeance" and grudges left and right (like on Ozpin).

Now, for the second part I also don't think Pyrrha was "not in her right mind". For starters, think about when you last saw a prominent, important character killed because of a mistake they made while being impuslive? I never saw it in anything that I have read / watched. An important character always dies as result of clear actions, so that the point comes across as that it was their choice and there was no stopping the character from making that choice.

Here was no different. She was distraught over the Fall Maiden thing and she certainly was after killing (?) Penny, but for the first time in like 5 episodes Pyrrha was back to who she really was in the last episode. You could clearly see that every action she made was resolute and had a clear sense of purpose behind it. Her battle tactics were also spot on, she really did everything she could with the power she had.

I will not believe for a second that she was either stupid or crazy at the time. She did it with a purpose that we don't know yet. Her talk with Cinder about destiny after which Cinder was all like "ಠ_ಠ Where are you getting with this?" settled it for me. We do not know everything about what went down there.