Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24032889-20180206052003

As the world's first synthetic being capable of generating an Aura, it had to come from somewhere else. Penny is the result of an experiment to transfer an Aura into another host, which gave way to the Aura Transfer Machine in Volume 3.

So why exactly would Atlas need to dive into the ethical gray area that is human/robot experiment?

To have a permanent Maiden. One Ironwood and Ozpin could trust and count on and who could truly be the ultimate weapon. It's not like Penny's robotic body ages. She would just need to power down for new hardware installment and then come back online. And if she's perpetually a young girl, she's perpetually elligible for the powers.

I get it. The idea for the Maidens was not concepted until after Volume 2, and Penny was introduced in Volume 1.

However, the concept of the Maidens has already given new meaning to previously existing plot devices. Raven was already going to be entangled in the Mistral arc, and the Maiden concept gave her a new meaning. If we're going to need a Winter/Summer Maiden in Atlas in Volume 6, I'd love to dive back into the ethical gray area.



And it's not like CRWBY would make a new character model and write/insert a small shot for "Mr. Clutch Chair" in "PvP" if they weren't gonna need him to come back at some point. He was watching Penny from Atlas, after all. He'll show back up. 