Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160117163823/@comment-50.189.78.215-20160119002847

Okay, I’m just gonna jump in. I think the Aura transfer is officially cancelled, if only temporarily. Why? Two reasons:

1: Pyrrha is now completely mentally BROKEN. Someone on the V3E8 thread brought up the possibility of Pyrrha's mental state affecting the transfer, and since her mental state is 'BROKEN', I don't know if the transfer would even take. Hell, I don't even think the Brotherhood even knows for sure if mental stability is a factor when moving a person's SOUL.

2: THERE'S NO TIME! We don't know how long the Aura transfer would take, we don't know if the Brotherhood even knows for sure how long the Aura transfer would take and, oh yeah, THERE'S A LEVEL 9 GRIMM INVASION AND WHITE FANG ATTACK GOING ON! Pyrrha is one of Beacon's best fighters, so w/ a Grimm and WF attack happening, what's more practical:

a) take one of your best warriors out of the fight for an unknown amount of time -time you don't have- to do a (probably) untested procedure w/out knowing if it'll even work at all, or

b) let her fighter instincts (and probably also Jaune) snap her out of her Heroic BSOD long enough for her to help defend the city before it's time to evac (more on that in a sec), at which point her adrenaline stops pumping and her instincts disengage the warrior-autopilot she'd been on and all the mental/emotional HELL she's been through the past couple days floods back in all at once, breaking her even harder. (Can you tell I read TVTropes' Heroic BSOD article today?)

Me? I'd go w/ option 'b'. It's (unfortunately) the lesser of two evils.

But about that 'time to evac' part. Vale is almost certainly doomed to fall. Think about the Atlesian cruisers: in the past 2 Volumes, the most Atlesian cruisers we've seen onscreen at once is 3, implying that those 3 cruisers were all that Ironwood brought (he wanted to show off his military muscle, not look like he wants to conquer Vale). Two of those cruisers were shot down by the third, which is now under Torchwick's control, and w/ Vale's communications with the other Kingdoms cut off, Ironwood's not getting any more.

Those cruisers did come with plenty of those gunship escorts, though. Even if they carried limited ammo, they'd still definitely be helpful against the smaller Grimm like Beowolves and Ursas. Hell, they could even keep Nevermores off of evac shuttles loaded w/ civilians. But against a full-sized Goliath the size of MassGeneral?! HELLZ NO! The only things that likely have enough firepower to kill one of those suckers in under 6 hours would probably be one of those cruisers, and those are not an option anymore.

Finally, IIRC, I believe RT once said something about the show going to other parts of Remnant at some point, and the fall of Vale gives the perfect reason to do that.

That's my two lien.

-He who is AWESOME