Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-30530552-20180102163330/@comment-2600:1700:8230:3360:EDFF:D384:FDE1:49B1-20180104033822

It's very evident that she's not gonna die. Not only because of where she was hit, but the fact that she's a title character and has plot armor.

The burn doesn't look THAT bad by what we've seen, the burns are most likely between second and third degrees. I don't think the spear had lava inside it, and red hot metal can still be used for cauterization. In fact, in many fantasy tropes, it HAS to be AT LEAST red hot. Hell, in Dying Light, when the big bad had one of his limbs chopped off, he literally thrust a lit torch into the stump and that stopped the bleeding. In Star Wars, a light saber is hot enough to cut through metal. METAL!! Yet it's said that they do cauterize the wounds they inflict.

Aside from treating injuries, there are plenty of things in fantasy that either make moderate sense or no sense at all depending on how it's presented. Science fiction is where incredible things like light speed are normally explained by advancements in technology. In action movies, there are plenty of moments where people get blasted into a car and keep on running. And don't even get me started on the sillier versions of fantasy where you can get a steak for a Russian mercenary with a minigun named Sasha by putting scrap metal into a sandwich.

This is a fantasy world, so real life details don't necessarily have to matter as much and things don't always have to make sense. How does Ruby launch herself at mach 2 speed so suddenly without f**king up her insides and suffer from hemorrhaging? Same thing goes for Yang who was punched by a giant robot, which could still inflict some pretty heavy internal damage. Why didn't Coco's spine snap from being yanked away so hard by Emerald? Why didn't Yang's freaking SHOTGUN GAUNTLETS punch gaping holes in any of the goons in the Yellow Trailer? I am VERY certain they didn't have auras, otherwise they wouldn't be knocked out so easily.

The point is i'm trying to make here is the logic in a piece of fantasy. Lets do some fantasy logic math, shall we?

Fire = heat. Heat + wound = cauterization. Spear + flesh + liver = serious wound. Cauterization + serious wound = (serious wound - serious) = wound. Fire + spear = heated spear. Heated spear + flesh + liver = serious wound + cauterization = wound. Wound / (plot armor + popularity X title significance) = survival.

With ALL OF THIS being said, it's unlikely that Weiss will die. Worst case scenario, she's out of commission for a while.