Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31953669-20180124124137/@comment-4141313-20180314233149

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: 70.164.250.74 wrote: A good ass-pull example in RWBY though would be that if Torchdick survived the ship explosion/crash.

Or if Vernal turned out to be alive. That’s also a good example. Vernal somehow still being alive, would definitely be one.

With Roman though, it wouldn't. His survival is actually fairly believable due to the circumstances.

>Roman had full Aura

>He was swallowed, not chewed one bit, so he wasn't actually damaged

>Grimm don't need to eat. They don't even bleed. So anything that could happen inside a Grimm is nothing more than an hypothesis, speculation.

>Since Roman was inside the Grimm, and had full Aura, both the Grimm and his Aura could've easily shielded him from both the crash and the explosion. Not to the point that it becomes harmless, but enough to make it not-necesarily-lethal.

And of course, RT can always pull the "SEMBLANCE" card like they did with Jaune and Hazel and to an extent Ruby after V3. I don't think they can pull the Semblance card. CRWBY said Roman was the case of someone never unlocking their semblance, so unless the trigger involved a specific set of circumstances that Roman was currently dealing with, and his semblance specifically helped in that circumstance, I don't think it would be waking up and helping him out.

Does that mean he is dead? Even though RT said he is (And I still take that with a grain of salt consider RT's history), I still agree his survival is the most plausible. Issue was, does RT have any way of using him? Wasn't that why they killed him off? They couldn't find anyway to utilize him?