Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160216033644/@comment-14909251-20160611190227

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: But we are not talking about neither a mercenary nor a soldier. Amber is neither of these. And would not adjust like either of them would.

It's one thing to trust in one's own powers to defend oneself against 3 random people attacking you out of nowhere, anyone in her place would hardly flinch if they were the Avatar like her.

It's different waking up in the middle of a Grimm-infested area in ruins with Grimm covering the skies and the ground by the hundreds or even thousands. She is no soldier, no mercenary, no Huntress. To foolishly believe she would adapt as quickly as any of them would to waking up in a situation like that, it's just delusional and unrealistic.

"Having combat experience", is not really a valid excuse for that reasoning. "Combat experience" can well be small fights here and there, nothing even close to waking up in a disaster zone filled with monsters. So you went from suggesting she might not be a huntress to saying she is definitely not a huntress based off nothing at all, and furthermore that she is definitely not someone with any other kind of real combat experience. I guess the arrogance exuded by Arkantos is contagious. The only real issue with my suggestion if we assume that she was not a huntress or soldier of some kind beforehand is that we don't know exactly how long she has been a Maiden or how they work with Maidens.

An obvious thing to do would be to train anyone who has these incredible powers and we know they have at least one secret underground chamber so it wouldn't be outlandish to suggest that one or some other one could be used for secret training. Not to mention, the longer she has been a Maiden the more likely she has had significant field experience fighting Grimm.

Arkantos95 wrote: Ironwood: 'We can't transfer Amber's power to you, but we can give you what those powers are bound to. '

Pyrrha: ... Her Aura.

For the fourth, freaking time, they explicitly said they'd be transferring her Aura. It's the only thing they knew how to do.

For the last time: '''This. Is. Canon. '''Not speculation, not assumption, but literal, without euphemism, hyperbole, exaggeration, or paraphrase, canon.

You can scream your head off until your face turns blue, but you continue to ignore the most basic point I am making that the coloring is most reasonably understood as representing Maiden powers. That doesn't somehow mean Aura is not being transferred to Pyrrha, but that the color is meant to represent the Maiden powers attached to the Aura and so the color of the energy coming out of Amber that goes into Cinder being the same would mean nothing.

The Emerald Forest was an entirely different situation compared to the nightmarish wasteland Beacon has become. We know nothing about the concentration of Grimm in the Forest versus the literal ever-growing horde that resides at Beacon. Again, not saying Amber can't evade them, just saying that the one thing making sounds that aren't like theirs is probably going to draw some red-eyed attention.

The situation is different, the person is different, and the environment is different. Yet the behavior wouldn't inherently be different. Do the Grimm have super-sensitive hearing that can detect even the slightest difference in sound from a great distance? Keep in mind that someone who is unarmed and just trying to escape is not going to be making quite the same ruckus as they did during the initiation. No explosions, gun-shots, or girlish screams.

And while there may be abandoned boats, would they have keys on board? Because I kinda feel like the sailboat would be more or less extinct in a world where airships exist.

You don't need there to be a sailboat, so long as there is some form of seaborne vessel that doesn't require keys or some form of authorization. For instance, a life raft with oars or possibly even a motor.

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

-If Beacon alone is heavily infested in air and ground, do you honestly think the already-filled with Grimm nearby forest will be much better?

Yes, actually, because there is far more cover thus making evasion simpler.

-I thought we saw her walking down a road.

Okay, so a dirt road isn't technically wilderness, but it obviously isn't the kind of highly developed urban area where one could easily avoid encounters with Grimm.

-"Undoubtedly had more experience". That sentence is among the most doubtful of your arguments.

How is that even remotely doubtful? Ruby is skilled, but she still had very little field experience and most of that being done under supervision alongside team members. We have every reason to believe Amber had more experience being alone in the field.

Also, Amber barely used anything that could count as Hand-to-Hand in that fight, what makes you think she's such a badass with it?

I suggest you watch the fight again. We can safely say her abilities in hand-to-hand combat eclipse that of Ruby by leaps and bounds.

-He only fought 1 Grimm at that time, not dozens, hundreds nor thousands. And he used special Aura techniques, techniques that we (well, except you) have no reason to believe Amber knows how to use.

He fought one much stronger Grimm than the average Beowolf despite having just started at Beacon and still had sufficient stamina to apparently run after Nora riding an Ursa and flee from and fight two massive Grimm.

-It's even more likely she would get ambushed every 3 steps by incoming Grimm in said forests.

Why is it more likely that she would not be able to evade Grimm in a place where there is far more natural cover? You see, this is the problem. All you lot are doing is assuming things and acting like it is pure undistilled truth against all reason. Arrogance.

73.Anon.52 wrote: Don't forget that he also passed out afterwards, completely spent. this is like saying it's OK to go into a literal lions den because you have a rocket launcher with one shot... your odds of survival are not encouraging there.

What are you talking about? He didn't pass out.