Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-9090085-20131128053728

Andrew S-997 wrote: Pyrrah is like Yang, an unwavering bastion of strength for her team; A near flawless fighter who'll never fall or falter untill the end.

Funny you should mention that; I just watched the director's commentary a few days back, and the two of them are essentially described as their respective teams' "team mom", with Pyrrah being someone who is "always trying to help people; and Yang as someone who appears to be a "party girl" but around Ruby is very "motherly" (their words, not mine).

While I'm not sure what kind of upbringing would make someone who tries to help everyone, I think I can say one thing for sure about Pyrrha: she never really went out to be famous. I get the impression that fame was basically heaped on her; possibly because she knows her Semblance makes her more-or-less invincible in an arena battle against humans, she doesn't appear to put much stock in her famous-ness.

They also gave the reason many humans detest the Faunus in a nutshell - look at the statue in front of the school: it has humans battling(symbolically) against beasts; where do the Faunus, nether human nor beast fit into that conflict? (obviously they're trying to be on the humans side but...)

It would also appear that the schools don't care whether you're Human or Faunus, so they probably never bothered to see if Blake was wearing a paper-thin disguise or not.

Maki Kuronami wrote:

Angren Túrë wrote: Or maybe, still stung from the incident in Forever Fall, Cardin goes crazy trying to outshine Jaune and volunteers his team for an extremely dangerous mission. So Honorable Asshat devolves back into Jelly Asshat in Volume 2...? Yeah, I'm fine with that. As long as the rest of CRDL shows their weapons. Because I really really wanna know what the hell they're using.

Speaking of Cardin... One of the character design principles of the series(according to the commentary) is that characters would, at first, appear to be an archetype; only to show hidden depths as the show goes on. So, watch out for Cardin in volume 2, because he is going to show his depths then.

(having Cardin step up to the plate in a crisis would probably help show off those depths... especially after this dismal performance)

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