Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131205063141

"For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all, infinite in distance and unbound by death."

This is the phrase Pyrrha uttered when she released Jaune's Aura. Before I theorized that the duo has met together in the past, but Jaune doesn't remember it. Now I seek a slightly more different approach.

With that phrase as circumstantial proof, I theorize that Pyrrha knows about Jaune's ''past self. ''She recognizes Jaune not because they met each other when they were small, it's because their previous selves - warriors of the past, perhaps even way back during the time of Grimm - had fought side by side. Pyrrha, through mysterious methods we do not yet know, has seen into her past self's memories. It's incredibly likely that even though a soul was reborn as a new person, the essence of it remains the same. Pyrrha had recognized Jaune almost instantly when she saw him, and I'm guessing that's because she recognized his Aura.

This was also the main reason why she was such a powerful warrior who has never lost in any tournaments - if we are to assume that her past self was a Huntress too, and if she remembers even a fragment of those battle experiences, then it's no wonder why she's so powerful and perfect in form. She literally had a whole lifetime of practice, however short it may be.

If this is true, then Pyrrha past self likely had died young. Her current maturity feels around the age between 20 to 30, if not a lot younger. I'd like to guess the pair of man and woman stated in 'I May Fall' is referring to the two of them, Jaune and Pyrrha, on their last stand against the Grimm.

This is not entirely guess work; in fact I've found yet another strange thing that Pyrrha had said during The First Step pt 1:

Pyrrha: "Actually, Jaune, I think you'd make a great leader!"

We already know that Jaune literally has zero combat skills, and that his family, for whatever strange reasons, seemed dead set at keeping him from being a warrior. Perhaps it's exactly because they knew that he was a hero of the past reborn to this world to fight a prophesized war (this is guesswork obviously). His parents did not want him to walk such a path of destiny and tried to avert him, but they failed. I'm almost 100% sure that Jaune ran away from home.

Anyway, how Pyrrha come to the conclusion that he would be a 'great leader' was a completely mystery and a strong hint that she knows something specific about Jaune. if we're assuming that this is purely compliment she should've said something along the lines of a great Huntsman, warrior, or even hero. But she called him a great leader, and that is a position that can only be tested and proven by time. Perhaps he was proven already, in the past long, long time ago.

Also, the phrase she uttered seemed to hint that the greatest souls may be able to transcend into an immortal state, and guide in their mysterious ways the people towards their future. Suddenly Red Like Roses Part II doesn't sound so strange any longer - almost all of us will agree that Summer Rose is a great person, and it would not be surprising to me if she has managed to perserve her consciousness or remain in spirit form despite having passed away. The scene described in Red Like Roses Part II may be literal. 