Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-37673888-20190108184438/@comment-38621229-20190316022022

Just a comment on the Pyrrha question: first, I don't want to get involved in any kind of antagonistic discussion with anyone on the board about this. I notice that bringing up Pyrrha's name seems to lead immeidately to all kinds of nasty arguments and insults on the board and I'm not interested in that. I also want to make clear that I think that Pyrrha is absolutely, unequivocally dead. Her death was tragic, heroic and meaningful. Bringing her back to life would both cheapen her death and also undermine the core idea put forward by the Gods of Light and Dark that death is irrevocable (their "resurrection" of Ozma aside, apparently) and that Salem's great lesson must come from her understanding the value of life and death. Nonetheless, I do think that there are some clues that Pyrrha's spirit lives on in some form. Ruby's dreams from the start of Season 4 have never been explained, to the best of my knowledge. In them, she heard Pyrrha's final words to Cinder, words she could not possibly have heard when they were spoken, and also heard Pyrrha desperately calling for Jaune, something that I don't believe came from anything that Pyrrha said to him when she was alive. So, the idea that her spirit is around in some way is not impossible. The strongest evidence for this is in Volume 6, Episode 9, when Jaune is apparently led to Pyrrha's statue in Argus by the red leaf and meets a woman who is probably Pyrrha's mother. Their subsequent conversation convinces Jaune, Ren and Nora that they should continue the fight against Salem, even it looks hopeless, because it is their responsibility. In this case, it is highly unlikely that a random, wind-blown red leaf just happened to lead Jaune to Pyrrha's statue and an important life lesson. So, I think the idea that Pyrrha may still be present as some kind of guardian spirit watching over Jaune and the others may have some merit. She will never come back, but her presence may be felt in the series in this way in the future.