Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.212.240.23-20141208233631

So far, Nora and Ren haven't had much plot importance, or screen time in general. But I've still been finding a lot of evidence that they may be robots.

First off, there are the obvious physical similarities between Nora and Penny. And I'm not exactly sure yet how robots work and are built, but I think this is resemblance is because they used Penny's model (with some tweaks) for Nora. Since Penny was the first artifical human able to create an aura, that means Nora and Ren would have had to have been created after her, so maybe they were able to hide the robotic speech, etc. when creating them.

Also, Nora and Penny's fighting styles seem to be similar, although we can't compare them that well, since we haven't seen Penny fight Grimm and Nora hasn't fought humans (or airships). However, they both display a certain... glee in battle, smiling nearly the whole time while in combat. And, although it probably has no relevence, Penny's green ray of doom reminded me of the pink explosion given off by Nora's weapon.

In Episode 1 of Season 2, Nora literally blasts Yang through the ceiling of the cafeteria with a watermelon on a stick. Robots are established to have super strength like that; Penny stopped a truck with her bare hands.

What made me think of this theory was in Episode 8 when Nora was riding the Ursa. She killed it while on its back, tumbled off, then said, "Aww, it's broken."

As of right now, we have virtually no information on Nora and Ren's background, or how they became friends with their conflicting personalities.

I don't have as much evidence about Ren being a robot, but it would make sense why he's friends with Nora. However, I do have one clue, and that is his weapon. More specifically, where he stores it. In his sleeves. His sleeves are really tight; I see no plausible way he could fit them in there. I mean, they practically disappear.

This is just a theory, but I think I have a case to back it up. I also hope they get more importance later (in Volume 3, hopefully). What are your thoughts on this? 