Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160110165745/@comment-26206856-20160114031016

WC-83 wrote: Taking the topic away a bit, I have a feeling Amber isn't going to appear again (most likely going to die), having a VA like Laura Bailey is expensive. I have a feeling either the procedure is going to kill Pyrrha or wipe her memories. Though through the contrived laws of love, she'll still remember Jaune (or at least remember being attracted to him) and this could probably help her along.

I wonder if Penny's potential injury would affect her choices to stay at Beacon. I see it going two ways. Either a) her being outed (or otherwise injured) will make Ironwood not take any chances and pull her out of Vale, away from Beacon and Ruby; or b) the injury would require her to lie low and she gets to stay at Beacon. I think Amber will appear as flashbacks to other times or stressful battles, leading to increased stress on Pyrrha (and leading to more concern/support from Jaune). Whether she beomes a full entity that can privately speak with Pyrrha in her head or just be a shadowy figure with limited speech/efforts in the flashbacks remains to be seen, but my guess is probably the latter.

I wonder if Penny will wind up scrapped and Ruby finds her to resalvage her. In Penny's mind she could think that losing will make her creator/captors deem her a failure and let her do as she pleases (which I highly doubt would be the case). Or maybe she thinks if she wins, they'll reward her with letting her stay. My thoughts are  she'll either wind up as a concious head that needs transfering or a few limbs will be removed and she'll need repairs (which would mean going back to Ironwoods ship or sent home).

As for Jaunes shoes, I believe they've been there since Vol2 when they updated the character models. You can catch a glimpse here and there, but the image above was what solidified what it was.