Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160110165745/@comment-14909251-20160113205039

SketchyOpus wrote: Remind me again where Pyrrha or anyone else said she was keeping her semblance a secret? Not broadcasting it isn't the same thing as being a secret. Besides, the way she tosses her shield around, the cans in the dining hall, coming to Jaune's aid against the ursa and going up against her other classmates in Glynda's class .. not to mention the announcers knowing the competitors' semblances, I can't get behind the whole secret polarity thing. Except, it was very clearly stated by Emerald that she was trying to make herself look untouchable and Cinder also noted that people think she is fated to win when she is really just using her ability to have it look that way. They call her the invincible girl for a reason. While I don't think that would be formally treated as cheating, the false image she has created for herself in the public eye is another matter. Mind you, she is a bit of celebrity as was noted in Volume 1. Most in RWBY are completely open about their Semblances either because they have no choice or just because they never thought to conceal it. People would see Pyrrha's attempts to make herself seem invincible and untouchable when she is just surreptitiously using her Semblance as skeevy even if not technically a violation of the rules, magnified by the celebrity she has built off that false reputation. For someone who thinks herself honorable and heroic, that would be a bit of a blow to realize that others don't feel the same way about how she uses her ability.