Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160103163552/@comment-26206856-20160107054855

BenRG wrote: Random idea: Cinder attacks Pyrra and strips away both the remainder of the Fall Maiden's power and Pyrrha's own Semblance. Pyrrha goes into a deep depression and loses her self-confidence. Jaune tries to break her out of it by asking for her continued help in finding his own Semblance.

She agrees because she's still helpful Pyrrha. At some point, Jaune's Semblance (either some kind of super-shield or a healing effect) triggers during a sparring duel and so does Pyrrha's magentokinesis. It turns out that, as Semblance is a part of an Aura, it cannot be permanently removed, only suppressed. The problem I see here is this: Does Cinder even know that Amber is still alive? Does she even know anyone besides the person who gave her the glove can swap aura/maiden power? (It's Ironwood's secret after all, and Penny is the 'experiment' of the technology, which she doesn't know about at all until she gets access to Ironwoods scroll.) Draining aura to get the maiden power should technically rip the person's soul out, leaving them dead, so she may expect Amber to not have survived.

I think it's much more useful for the story to have the transfer weigh heavily on Pyrrha's mind through the 'hunger' or some sort of intermingling of minds. Maybe CInder steals or tries to steal it later on, but definitely not right away. (She'd need another glove too.)

If Pyrrha lost her semblance, getting it back would feel kinda cheap, especially when you think about how the transfer is literaly ripping the person's soul out of them, which should leave them dead. If it somehow goes that route, I'd rather see her get it back from Jaune due to the 'unlocking' she performed on him earlier in the series. I still say his Semblance is some sort of OP sheild meant for a last minute cover, or something where he's the only one with enough power/aura to contain or block something (like maiden powers) because Pyrrah noted he had a lot of aura.