Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160213154456/@comment-27793049-20160214004528

Sooooo I may sound like a rabbid fanboy (who wanted more than just one kiss out of Arkos) here but until we get into season four would it be safe to considered the status of Pyrrha to be unknown? Ruby pretty much went into shock at the moment of seeing her with an arrow through her chest. So there is an albiet small possibility that she was hallucinating at that point. Not to mention, when she unleashed that (potentially one of the four maidens power) it clearly did a number on her as well. Who knows if she had actually discintigrated as Ruby saw it. It does stand to evidence with Cinder throwing fire around that the arrow could of literally burned her up from the inside. This early in the game however I'll hold out hope for her being alive. You can look at it one of two ways far as I can tell.

Pyrrha: "Do you believe in fate?  (Hint that she and the writers believed that she would live on in some way?)

Yang: Sometimes bad things just happen. (Line given to Yang for purpose of writers speaking to us, to tell us that we needed to accept what happened to Pyrrha, or others like Penny, or heck even Torchwick.)