Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39492511-20190807174432/@comment-14909251-20190817170019

Super saiyan swagger wrote: joke or not, mercury or emerald, it shouldnt happen, mercury because he actually enjoys the shit he does, and emerald was the reason for penny's death Getting onto the whole Penny being sentient thing, using her "death" to say Emerald can't be redeemed is flawed for a few reasons. For one, we don't know for certain that Penny is "dead" as her Aura could be kept in place and her body has simply been deactivated. That has been widely speculated and I don't think RT have definitively said anything on Penny.

We also need to consider the more basic point that Emerald could not be certain her actions would lead to Penny's "death" as it was Pyrrha's reaction to Emerald's illusions that caused it. Clearly something was expected to happen, but whether it would involve Penny dying or just being grievously injured was beyond their ability to minutely control.

Last, and certainly not least, Emerald probably would not understand Penny as sentient. Penny is, after all, a robot and people who did not know her well might be inclined to think of her as merely a machine. It is not that same as being involved in killing a flesh-and-blood human. Emerald may not really have considered Penny a sentient person and that is understandable.