Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160225225013/@comment-14909251-20160227191145

WC-83 wrote: He might not be convicted, but most likely Ironwood's career is ruined, if not for what his robots did, than for letting Vale fall on his watch. This means he, as well as all of his projects, will be sent off dishonorably. This might include Penny, and so since she and her father will have no where to go, Weiss might take them in in secret. Obviously, he failed in what he was there to do and he also made Atlas look bad, but it depends on how Atlas wants to approach it. We also had several months intervening and the state of the CCT is not clear. I would think they would be doing everything they could to restore it, since communications would be cut for all the other Kingdoms as we know from World of Remnant. He could be fired and cast as a general who went rogue or they could just say he couldn't manage his troops. Depends entirely on how much pull and credibility he has with Atlas.

Penny, I admit I had not considered the potential reaction to her reveal. Good chance the outcry and Penny's failure to beat Pyrrha would be sufficient for the military to declare the project dead, but her "father" would most likely not take that. Certainly, the SDC would have its own interest in Penny and could want to take it off the military's hands. Weiss not really doing anything with Penny did kind of disappoint me, but I'm not sure she was ever revealed to Weiss as an android until the fight.

Incidentally, back when Penny was first introduced I desperately wanted to see Weiss learn about it, express amazement at it, and try to help Penny be like a real girl. We kind of lost the opportunity of that since Weiss does know about Penny now and she learned in a way that made that outcome not exactly possible. Still, the last part that I most liked would still totally be possible and would make more sense in context since Weiss would not only have to help her be more human, but be more like herself if we presume Penny is going to experience some difficulties in the transition between bodies.