User blog comment:Hidden Scorpius XI/An ever-present detail/@comment-10380701-20150120135136

I personally think it essentially serves a purpose akin to Magneto's helmet. Maybe not to prevent mindfuck attacks. Just protecting 'something'.

That, or it's pivotal in the usage of her semblance.

Well, regardless of that though, it has a strange magic of allowing Pyrrha to have a ponytail despite not ''having anything to tie her ponytail with. ''