Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160216033644/@comment-26397825-20160216041128

She doesn't bleed because the arrow was still iside her; there is a reason medical personnel advise against remove something that is piercing the body unless you know how to stem the rush of blood that will follow. It acts as an obstruction to prevent the person from bleeding out.

The significance of the headress was artistic choice. How much more impactful was it for her headress to fall to the ground than it would have been for there to be nothing left? Also, now Ruby, Jaune, Ren and Nora can give her headdress to Pyrrha's mother id they meet her while they're in Mistral.

We know she was burnt because of a photoshootinvolving Sheena by Soulfire Picture, which they have been sitting on for two years now. They clearly show Pyrrha being burnt. Monty planned this exact scene all the way back in the first volume. It's not completely accurate since the photoshoot doesn't involve Pyrrha being shot with an arrow, but it is accurate in showing that she was incinerated and crumbled to ashes. Or cinders, if you will, since they were still glowing red-hot when the wind blew her all over Beacon.

I'm sorry, but if she has an arrow sticking into the dead centre of her chest and then an arrow sticking out her back, her spine has been pierced. The spine is in line with where the arrow pierced her chest.

Seriously, she's dead.