Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27186569-20170521134631/@comment-25936766-20170921143946

Dalek955 wrote: Reasoning: RWBY is based heavily on the concept of individuality, with souls being an expression of a person's uniqueness. And what does that say about people like Velvet, whose very Semblance and weapon and fighting style is based entirely on being a cheap copycat?

.......But Penny's brain is a computer, and computers can be unplugged and left that way indefinitely with no hardware damage and little or no data loss. In theory, if her body is repaired, her brain, personality and soul should all start back up no problem. In itself, that requires 2 things: That her hardware is mostly-fine, and that her software is mostly-fine.

Her body didn't just get sliced, it also got hit by a strong magnetic wave. I'm no expert, but something of that strength may have messed her up inside.

Even if she was repaired, some things may not be able to be repaired and instead must be replaced, and depending on what those things are, the resulting "Penny" may or may not be much, if at all, like the one we knew.

This is not like just "unplugging a PC". What Penny suffered is more like cutting a PC with a machete while blasting it with an EMP.