Talk:Penny Polendina/@comment-39558533-20190630050536/@comment-4010415-20190630221937

Judging by the way that Ironwood and Qrow spoke about the Aura transfer machine in Volume 3, I think it was transferred.

Ironwood: For the past few years, Atlas has been studying Aura from a more scientific standpoint; how it works, what's it made of, how it can be used. We've made... significant strides. And we believe we've found a way to capture it.

Qrow: Capture it and cram it into something else. (gestures to Pyrrha as she takes a second to realize what that means) Or in your case...

People give Miles and Kerry a lot of shit about the writing, but they have actually put subtle implications into their wording before, so I think it's important to pay attention to how they have the characters word things and what meanings they had in mind when they wrote the lines.

Ironwood says "We've made... significant strides. And we believe we've found a way to capture it." What significant strides is he talking about? Significant strides means that they've actually gotten results that can be seen, that can prove that this research they've been doing is not for nothing.

Qrow says "Capture it and cram it into something else. Or in your case..." That wording there is very telling, to me. He goes from "cram it into something else" to "Or in your case..." as if they have already put Aura inside of something, a non-living object, with this technology, and Pyrrha's case is different because she's already a living being. Qrow's part is what tells me that Atlas' "significant stride" is that they used their technology to put Aura in Penny.

But even still, she does count as living.