Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31953669-20180124124137/@comment-4141313-20180315050349

73.Anon.52 wrote: BlizzardDragon wrote:

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

... With Roman though, it wouldn't. His survival is actually fairly believable due to the circumstances.

>Roman had full Aura

>He was swallowed, not chewed one bit, so he wasn't actually damaged

>Grimm don't need to eat. They don't even bleed. So anything that could happen inside a Grimm is nothing more than an hypothesis, speculation.

>Since Roman was inside the Grimm, and had full Aura, both the Grimm and his Aura could've easily shielded him from both the crash and the explosion. Not to the point that it becomes harmless, but enough to make it not-necesarily-lethal.

And of course, RT can always pull the "SEMBLANCE" card like they did with Jaune and Hazel and to an extent Ruby after V3. ...

Does that mean he is dead? Even though RT said he is (And I still take that with a grain of salt consider RT's history), I still agree his survival is the most plausible. Issue was, does RT have any way of using him? Wasn't that why they killed him off? They couldn't find anyway to utilize him? Roman is dead because RT said so, no other reason. As SYUTK said, he was inside the stomach of a Grimm, unless that is an insta-kill, he effectively was inside a sandbag as the explosion and crash killed that Grimm pretty quickly afterward... pretty much the first thing that might have killed him was suffocation or an acid bath or some kind of portal to the void. I wasn't arguing against his death. I was agreeing with the earlier account that his is the most survivable, but that he still is dead, hence why I made note of the usage for him.

Besides, even if RT says so, I take what they say about character deaths with a grain of salt. Even if RWBY is more serious in comparison, after all the flip floping over Donut, I can't take any death that has a plausible chance of surviving at face value.

To elaborate, I entirely believe their statement that Pyrrha is dead, as there is no plausible manner she could have survived.

Penny and Roman though is more murky. Penny because as a Robot, she can be rebuilt, only issue being if she would be the same Penny, and Roman due to the lack of aura breaking, no idea what a Grimm's digestive system is like, if it even has one, and his death having a plausible means of survival. The only thing keeping my belief Roman is dead is because of their statement they love writing him to much and as such killed him so they wouldn't have to alter plans due to their love of writing him, and that can easily be changed later down the line if they decide they could still use him and thus have an existing window to use for his survival.