User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E7 - The Gang is Back (almost) - Impressions/Recap/@comment-34633327-20171130003444/@comment-25936766-20171130023154

Before anything, do note that everything I said about him up there was a theory. I could be proven wrong anytime, and even my theory up there doesn't have stone-hard logical reasoning as a base.

Now:

1) It is possible that the act of "reincarnation", both for the Maiden powers and for Ozpin, has no cost. And it is possible that using the powers, well, has no cost either. But Ozpin's power is finite, as in, it's a finite amount what he was given, and it's a finite amount what he can give to others, but using that amount does not spend it.

Let me try to make an example to explain: You have 20 swords that do not break or decay or anything, they are 20 everlasting swords. Using those swords, of course, won't decrease their amount, since they are everlasting.

But let's say you give 3 swords to someone. You now have 17 swords and they have 3. Using the swords won't decrease that amount, since they are everlasting, but the amount of swords you have is finite and since you gave some of your swords to someone else, you now have a smaller amount.

That's one way that the powers might work. Ozpin can give part of his given-power to other people, but actually using the given-powers does not spend them.

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2) The thing is, if Ozpin could actually use his powers for real, instead of just giving them to others, well, we wouldn't have a plot.

We've seen what 1 Maiden can do, now imagine what 4 combined could do, now add a countless, unimaginable amount of power on top of it that isn't necesarily restricted to the 4 elements. By all acounts, Ozpin should be a physical God.

Yet, well, he hasn't made much progress in his war in literal ages. Which is why it's likely that he cannot actually use the power the Gods gave him, he can only give it to others. And if he can't use those powers, well, he can't open the Vaults himself then.

Of course, since magic is likely involved, it is possible that the Vaults are designed so that he can open them himself without a Maiden. But that's another question entirely.

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3) "Then remember that the V3 commentary says the cane "Stores Time". Time is a broad term, but it also a record of a person's life, of the choices they've made, and the choices they will make. I think his cane allows the ability of Precognition, but not a single timeline, multiple timelines"

Yeaaah no. Stop. Aside from the fact that there's no real proof that it is his cane, and we haven't actually seen any real evidence of it "storing time" in the show, plus the fact that the story plans have and can still be changed in different ways, minor and major, we should take that statement with much salt for now.

Also, Time =/= "Choices someone made and will make". Similar, but not the same. And what you describe doesn't sound like something the Relic of Choice would do; it sounds more like Knowledge, "to know everything, even what hasn't happened yet but could happen".

4) Let's say Ozpin does have Choice, and Choice does everything you think it does. Result: We wouldn't have a plot. Because that means that Ozpin would esentially be Omniscient, being able to see everything someone did and everything someone will do, and thus becomes able to see past, present and future.

If that was the case, Volume 3 would have never happened.

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I'm more inclined to think that Choice has to do with actual Choice. Decision-making. Choosing. Not precognition, not seeing the future, nothing like that, stuff that has to do with choice.