Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160216033644/@comment-26397825-20160216043327

Okay...another point against "Cinder absorbed her": The light goes away from Cinder, and so do the particles. If Cinder absorbed he,r they would have gone towards her. They don't. Ergo, Cinder did not absorb her.

Piercing the spine along with cauterising the nerves and burning you out from the inside shuts down the brain.

She's dead. The voice actress even confirmed that she will no longer be voicing Pyrrha, and she had fun, it was great, but Pyrrha is dead.