Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180105193053/@comment-34633327-20180108170740

SpiritedDreaming wrote: I keep seeing all this stuff about Vernal not being dead, and remember Weiss. We all argued and said how she’ll be fine because the spear didn’t hit anywhere too vital and look what happened - she was pretty much dying on screen and only lived because of Jaune’s Semblance activating.

Plus there’s the fact that Cinder didn’t look like she was making an effort to keep her fingers still in there. They sliced through Verbal’s skin easily, imagine what they’re going to do to her organs moving around in there, making that sort of clawed motion.

And look at Sienna, who got a clean slice through the abdomen and died pretty much straight away as she was tossed down the stairs. Her wound was a lot neater and nicer than Vernal’s.

So, sorrynotsorry, but Vernal is most probably dead. Ah, but dear Spirited, there in lies the difference between Vernal's circumstances, and Weiss and Khan's circumstances. Vernal was only stabbed, whereas Weiss and Khan were pierced.

In Khan's case, Khan was clearly still alive after Adam pierced her, as she attempted to go for his throat, however, just as Adam pulled out his blade, he slightly twisted his wrist, twisting the blade inside her and causing further damage on the exit trip. Considering immediantly after she fell down a flight of stairs, the wounds caused by his blade, a sharp object it's own right, being twisted in the abdomen, caused her death. Even after the fall, her body twitched for a second, meaning it was the final impact in conjunction with the stab wounds that killed her.

In Weiss' case, she too was alive after pierced, as everyone predicted. People also predicted it would allow someone, particularly Jaune, enough time to get to her and save her. Even if the pierce didn't kill her, there was still the risk of bloodloss, so people knew she had a chance of dying, they just didn't believe it because she was 1. A Main Character, and 2. not in danger of Instant Death, meaning someone could at the least stop the bleeding. In addition, as Weiss was pierced, she had two large exit areas for bloodloss. As Jaune was healing her, there was dried blood on her former wound, meaning she was at risk of losing blood, just not too fast. In addition, her wound was from a Glass Spear with pure plasma on the inside. While many believed this would cauterize the wound, the fact it was the glass that hit her, not just a spear of pure fire or plasma, meant it didn't. The glass however is still a sharp object, considering all of Cinder's other Glass Weaponry have been sharp enough to pierce skin and muscle (Like her arrows in Pyrrha's Heel and Chest), and durable enough to hold up against refined Metal like Jaune's upgraded Crocea Mors.

Vernal on the other hand has the least deadly wound. Vernal recieved five puncture wounds to her abdoman, and assuming humans in Remnant havestandard anatomy, Vernal was mainly injured in the area of her Small Intestine.