Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10317392-20130906010815/@comment-17727644-20130908024809

ImposterParrotGrass wrote: I'm not out right calling him sexiest, how can you with so many great female characters who aren't defined by being a girl. it's just that Pyrrha looks like she's there for sole purpose of dieing to motivate Juane. I would be just as opposed to it if it were the other way around. I get that there needs to be character deaths, but Pyrrha has a lack of personality, so it won't feel that emotional, and the sines are so obvious, she may as well be wearing a red shirt that says 2 weeks to retirement on it.

Now, I don't mean to hate, I love Monty and this series, but this feels like such a glaring flaw in an otherwise amazing series, I can't help but bring it up. But hey, this is all speculation, so maybe he'll surprise us all with Pyrrha  cleverly getting Juane out of a situation she would have ended up sacrificing herself for, saying something like "Sure, I swore to protect you with my life, doesn't mean I can't keep you out of situations where i'd need to." Sorry, did not mean to imply that you had said it. I had to look up the trope to refresh my memory to make sure it was correct in my head and went from there.

Sadly, That's just a glaring flaw in the series which I find heavily annoying as well. but It is - what it is. You can't get everything perfect in a series and eventually any author is going to trip up and do something that isn't awesome. They are after-all - human. They do make mistakes.

I wouldn't say that Pyrrha was out-right there to die from Jaune. Initially when introduced anyone looking at her knew that she was going to be tragic figure of some sort given origin/definition of her name. The question is what event/person it was going to be tied to. I agree she has Red Shirt written all over. Pun totally intended considering she's a red-head who wears red clothes.

I had assumed at first it was going to be ruby or especially Wiess since she previously knew her. It wasn't untill the Aura scene did I concede that it might have to deal with Jaune. For all we know, it could be linked to all three of those characters.

I wouldn't say that Pyrrha doesn't have a personality. She has turned into my favorite character of the series despite the tragic label stuck to her since the begining. I just liked her weapon loadout and the fact that she actually wears armor that makes sense. Perhaps it was just me but I was able to draw out quite a conclusion of her personality from what I have seen. Though I'm a Psych Minor in college, so it's kindof my thing to figure out people and why they do the things they do. It's just how my mind works.

And to be honest, I would fully expect her to say that especially after this scorpion incident. She doesn't seem to be the type of person that would just let Jaune walked into danger just because. She would prevent it from happening in the first place much like the use of her spear pinning him to the tree when falling. I could imangine something similiar happening:

"Remember last time with the torch and the cave? And what was that? A relic you found in it? Jaune... just hang back here for a second, I'll go take a look and give the all clear."

All in all, I would hope he lampshades/subverts it as well.