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Glitchee123z wrote: 1. Pyrrha being framed for murder would’ve actually meant something, 2. Jaune dying instead would’ve had a more believable impact for Ruby do use her Silver Eyes because they were actually friends

1. But Pyrrha wasn't framed for murder... Once Penny got cut to pieces, everyone in the stadium realized that she was a robot and therefore didn't think Pyrrha murdered anyone.

The whole point of having Pyrrha destroy Penny was not to make people go "Omg Pyrrha's a murderer!" It was mainly to expose Atlas for having a robot who's disguised as an innocent-looking girl. Like Cinder pointed out, the Grimm can't really tell the difference. The Grimm don't care if what they're tearing apart is a teenage girl or a robot. The question that Cinder tries to get people in Vale, Vacuo, and Mistral to think is: What is the point of the robot looking like a flesh-and-blood young girl when its appearance has no effect on its ability to kill Grimm? The only logical conclusion those people can come up with is that an army of robots disguised as innocent girls could easily launch a surprise attack on a kingdom of people.

Furthermore, Cinder used the shock and paranoia to add onto the outrage that people had been feeling from the previous night where Yang "broke" Mercury's leg "for no reason", thus making the Grimm even more eager to invade. Her speech ramped up those negative emotions even more, leading to the number of Grimm to go pouring into the four kingdoms and overwhelm the defenses.

Why have Pyrrha do the deed? Because it was too perfect not to set up. Like Mercury pointed out to Ruby, someone with a polarity Semblance vs a robot spells bad news for the robot.

In short: Having Pyrrha destroy Penny absolutely meant something.

2. To be fair, Pyrrha's death triggering Ruby's silver eyes would've made more sense if the writers had shown RWBY and JNPR hanging out instead of having them do so off-screen. But they didn't want the plot to stick around at Beacon for more than three volumes.

As for how Pyrrha's presence would've affected Volume 4, well... Tyrian wouldn't have been able to do much of anything. All Pyrrha would've had to do was just use her polarity on the blades of his weapons and yeet him out of Oniyuri.

I think she would've been able to kick some serious ass in the Nuckelavee fight, too.