Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-43756665-20200208204457/@comment-86.152.12.193-20200215184800

I admittedly haven't watched Volumes 1-3 in a while, so I might have misremembered. The shock value of Pyrrha being the first major character death cannot be discounted either. But a lot of people did like her.

Personally, I liked Clover. I did not ship FairGame, before you jump the gun, but I thought he was nice enough. He made an interesting foil to Qrow - more self-assured, less reclusive. The big problem was that their relationship didn't get to develop beyond a few chats and a card game before everything went to shit. Volume 7 as a whole was a bit too rushed. Make it a bit longer and give us a few side-questy episodes with more character interactions and it would have hit a lot harder.

I am not willing, however, to back down from the point that major characters shouldn't be killed off unless their deaths a) aren't just to raise the stakes and b) have impact on other characters going forward. I'll agree with you on the size of the cast, but hopefully they drop a few of them as we go forward.