User blog comment:Warmachine375/Will there be character deaths in RWBY?/@comment-26018514-20150524171323/@comment-3257939-20150530201939

I hoped you didn't say those things. You're basically quoting Anon so we're back to the beginning.

Your reasoning is that Pyrrha already did everything she could but that's where the problem begins and you shrug it off as something random in your first point.

Pyrrha + Character Development = Meh! Don't want it. Just kill her already.

Are you telling me that once Ren and Nora get development and maybe if they get together after Volume 3 or 4, they become expendable? Seriously. Your reasoning for a character to be allow to die is to reveal their background through a monologue of 30 seconds and confess their feelings to someone?

Also, how is being OP another good reason? Ok, Pyrrha dies so everyone realizes that the villains are actually villains. Ahem. So why don't we go with something like killing tons of people, killing senior students at Beacon, kill an actual huntsman or something even more noticeable? If this death is supposed something then how is Pyrrha's death going to make a difference? Buhu. She died. Big deal. Bring the replacement, have Jaune get over it and move on with the story. That death will leave impact on Jaune but that will be the end of it. We're talking about the death of a character with zero development whose only reason to exist is to be the love interest of a certain character. That certain character will have their amount of despair and self doubt but that's it. We're going to expend an actually good fighter with a great design just so that the weakling has a 1 minute scene were he expresses his sadness about it and then gets over it.

If that's the plan for killing Pyrrha then we need her to be developed. Otherwise it will become like SAO or Attack On Titan with characters we knew a few minutes ago and never really got any chance to like: Dying like if they were at the slaughterhouse. In terms of characterization, Pyrrha is a terrible character. And killing a character that we can only get to like by her personality or because she looks hot will make her death a joke for everyone but the character, especially Jaune. Current Pyrrha isn't really expendable.