Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181229081856/@comment-15484286-20190111080319

73.Anon.52 wrote: Jyzuru wrote:

BlizzardDragon wrote: Right. If he knew about Pyrrha's Semblance, then he's an idiot for not forcefully inputting a code into the "randomizer" that prevented the two from fighting …

also there was no issue with the 2 of them fighting had it not been for Emerald's semblance. the only reason why things went south is due to Phyrrha seeing all those swords due to the illusion. if she had only seen the regular amount then she wouldn't have used so much magnetic power to fight against the attack.

but running a scan on the CCT, yeah we can blame everyone in power for not doing something like that, but we can't blame Ironwood for what happened to Penny. well, I guess if we're to blame him for what happened, ...

Except Penny was likely dead before she was sliced apart... it didn't matter that Emerald used illusions at all... that was purely for scale and spectacle I would have to disagree there, solely for the fact that we saw Penny with a magnet attached directly to her head without it causing any issue in her funcationality. and if it weren't for the amount of blades Pyrrha saw, she likely would have sparingly used her abilities, only directly moving the blades around as she needed to since it was only around 6-7, but she saw probably hundreds, which it would be harder to deflect all of them safely, forcing her to push herself to release a giant wave at one time.

now, if she had done the giant magnetic wave it might have messed up Penny due to the sheer amount of magnetic energy sent her way, but without the illusion, there really was no fear in the magnetic force killing Penny