Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160216033644/@comment-27143816-20160216043117

SpiritedDreaming wrote: She doesn't bleed because the arrow was still inside 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 headdress was artistic choice. How much more impactful was it for her headdress 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 if 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. K

Maybe but there is most likely some kind of symbolic meaning behind the headress remaining undamaged.

"So, I have been sitting on this shoot for two and a half years now. Sheena and I shot it in Studio 5 as I was visiting after RTX that year.

I’ll have a writeup done in a day or two, or three. Giving everyone to recuperate after the finale - and maybe you all will understand why processing this was harder than normal for me.

But this isn’t 100% accurate to the episode, you’re right.

But it is accurate to what Monty, Daniel, and I planned when we were creating the scene. So I’m sticking with it.

Nuclear shadow and all."

They were probably planning the death and she may had been intended to be burnt alive (magically) but altered the scene to be moved from wherever it was to Ozpin's office and instead of death by magic fire it was some weird absorbtion ritual. We see no buring going on in the episode and Cinder placing her hand on Pyrrha also supports this theory as she may need to make contact to absorb her power.

Fine but that wasn't the point of that statement. The point was you could live with your spine pierced (As you previously said that piercing the spine shuts down the brain).

That is still up in the air (from a theoretical perspective)