Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28792888-20140620221642/@comment-26882656-20160216003232

LiveandSound wrote: JadenLan wrote: Could someone explain to me what a Pyrrhic victory is? Don't know if dumb or very sheltered, it's a very well-known term. It means when one side wins, yet the victory comes with costs and losses so big that the whole victory is meaningless, not different from a loss.

They got to stop Cinder and the Dragon, a safe zone was established in Vale, Ruby gained Mary Sue powers....but Vale is in ruins, filled with Grimm, Pyrrha is dead, Penny is dead, Ozpin is possibly dead, Yang lost an arm and her partner left her up with no explanation like her mother did to her father, Weiss is taken by her father to Atlas, Blake ran away, a Maiden is dead, there's going to be political conflicts especially with Ironwood and Atlas, and the true villain is still out there and still active.

So overall, they won, but it's more of a loss when you think about it. ... Did you skip the part explaining my reasoning for asking the question on purpose?

The part where I said "Why is it everyone calling it a victory when we fucking lost bigtime"

It looks like you did. Otherwise you wouldn't have written a similar list to the one I wrote.

"The kingdom has fallen, Two of the world's most powerful fighters are dead, Yang, also a finalist, is missing an arm, The entire world comunications network is down, the other three kingdoms saw Atlas waging war on Vale, Ozpin is missing and RWBY went to hell in multiple ways. Oh and the dragon attracting Grimm to the city isn't even close to being dead.

Pyrrha did nothing but unlocking Ruby's eye wings and Ruby just paused the dragon.

That sounds like a loss."

Apparently it's just me because others see it as a victory, albeit a pyrrhic one. I, myself, will continue to call this a loss and stop nagging about it. Thank you for the explanation. (Both Live and Chishio) Okay rant over.