Talk:Penny/@comment-25555436-20150308201601/@comment-25555436-20150422224849

Incoherent? Not necesarily. Nonsense? Not necesarily. All a work of fiction requires in this aspect, is that it establishes it's own sense of logic, it's own sense of reality, and to abide by it. If it doesn't, then it's incoherent.

However, given this show's writting so far, it may feel at first like nonsense. But not necesarily.

Souls in RWBY could be detected, and then studied and analyzed, even if they are non-physical in any way, nor follow any law of physics. By the people that put enough self-investment into the study, they may have already figured out a way to manipulate it. It's possible Atlas already knows how, even if just a prototype. And we both know how good they are at keeping their stuff protected. (Obvious sarcasm is obvious).

As such, I'll make a possibility here: Cinder knows that the Atlesian scientist have discovered how to manipulate the Soul, knowledge they used to give Penny said Soul and be able to use Aura. As such, Cinder is going to use that knowledge to her advantage, by showing another way you can manipulate someone else's soul. As power comes from the Soul here, lose it, and you lose all the power you have.

Maybe the Grimm indicate that one in RWBY can survive without a soul, but won't have Aura or Semblance without one. Maybe the Grimm are born without one, while humans and faunus are, yet one's soul is not necesary to live here. Nonsense? Maybe, but like I said, this is fiction, where given that nothing is real, it doesn't need to be, and as such, everything is possible.