Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160216033644/@comment-14909251-20160610235452

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: No, your suggestion is silly. Just because someone knows how to fight and defend themselves, it doesn't mean they would adjust so quickly to waking up in the middle of a Grimm-infested area.

Let's say there are 2 guys in a market, that suddenly and quickly becomes a combat zone. Both know kickboxing and know how to use a gun. However, the first is a civilian, not used to being in a firefight, and so he panics. The other is a soldier, trained daily for things like this, and so he does not panic.

Do you honestly think that just because someone can defend herself, she would adjust to something like that as swiftly as a real Hunter would? We aren't talking about a civilian as opposed to a soldier. Amber was alone and armed in the wilderness, while exhibiting combat experience. By any reasonable estimation, she would not be equivalent to a civilian who can use a gun and knows how to kickbox yet has never seen combat. The only reason Amber lost in her battle againt Cinder and crew was because they ambushed her. Even then it was a close call for them. This is more like you trying to draw a distinction between a mercenary and a soldier.

Arkantos95 wrote: Why is it an assumption that the substance going through the tubes of a machine that was explicitly stated to be used to capture Aura and transfer it into someone/thing is Aura?

Obviously, the machine was transferring Aura. The assumption you are making is that the coloring is meant to signify the transferring of Aura rather than the Maiden powers and that therefore Cinder received Amber's Aura because of similar coloring. Nowhere did Ozpin or any of the others suggest that Aura is transferred along with the Maiden powers.

Unlike Pyrrha, Cinder was not hooked up to a machine meant to transfer Aura so we would have to also assume that somehow the machine made it so that when Cinder received the Maiden powers she also received the Aura. All I have to assume regarding Pyrrha is that the interruption of the Aura transfer did not completely undo the Aura transfer that had already occurred.

I'm lookign here and I'm not seeing any roads or bridges or anything that would suggest overland travel is used around Beacon, and going by scale I'd say those are probably some pretty big rivers and lakes.

All that really matters is for her to be clear of where the Grimm are gathering as if she can get to forested areas away from Beacon, she has a better chance of surviving.

The point is that looking at the available evidence, it seems unlikely that Ambyrrha would be able to get anywhere unless someone conviently abandoned a working boat at the dock with the keys on board. (Another pet peeve of mine in regards to movies, but that's beside the point)

To be fair, if someone had arrived by boat they would have probably not taken the time to get all the way back down to it when the Grimm started attacking so abandoned boats would not be much of a stretch.

Not saying it's impossible, but it'd sure as hell be difficult and we don't know what kind of survivalist training these people had.

We did see her seemingly out in the wilderness in the flashback episode, so solitary survival skills seem to be something she would know.

Just because someone's a skilled fighter doesn't mean they're going to be good at hand-to-hand. Case in point: Ruby Rose, skilled scythewielder, leader, and all-around fighter especially for her age, but can't punch for shit.

You can't fairly compare a first-year student who had skipped ahead two years doing a poor job on her first field mission to someone who undoubtedly had more experience. In fact, in the only battle we've seen she demonstrated the ability to kick some serious ass in hand-to-hand combat.

That's just dealing with her ability and not allowing for Pyrrha's Aura being in her as well, thus giving her some of her combat ability. Obviously, if Pyrrha's Aura gave her enhanced healing ability, it would also be reasonable to suggest it would give her enhanced strength.

I'm also not saying she's incapable of getting away from them, it's just that being alone, unarmed, and without the powers she's used to commanding and most likely relying on, calling encounters with the Grimm an uphill battle would be an understatement.

Ren was alone as well yet he took down a Grimm that seems to be tougher than the average Boarbatusk and Beowolf by relying on unarmed combat because his weapon is shit.

I'm not saying they're these perfect mind-linked unstoppable killing machines (Breach pretty much cured us all of that illusion), but they are based on animals, primarily ones with good hearing and/or eyesight. If they hear something like a fight going on, they're going to investigate, and if they find her they're going to attack, because that's their entire purpose. And somehow I don't think that going hand to hand with an ever-increasing group of creatures that are most likely going to be pound-for-pound stronger than her (discounting Aura-enhanced strength) would go well.

You rely on so many things being true that it is more like you are trying to convince yourself it is impossible. When they got into that fight with an Ursa in the Forever Fall forest, we didn't see hordes of Grimm descend and there was no indication of that in the Emerald Forest despite the big fight with the massive Grimm. The Grimm have proven to not be as perceptive as you understand them. Blake showed it isn't too hard to sneak around them during the initiation as well.

She could possibly escape from them while she's in Beacon and has dorms and other structures she can duck into where her smaller size would be to her advantage for getting away from them, but once she's out in the open where Grimm are approaching Beacon because of the Dragon's presence she's not going to have as many options.

There are a lot of trees and forest around in addition to the structures, so it is likely she would have plenty of cover or at least be close enough to be able to close the distance.