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ACWeapons wrote: If you want to say she's alive, give us evidence first. As much as I want to believe that Pyrrha is dead I just can't. There's too much evidence in the last episode of Volume 3 and a few episodes of Volume 4 that seem to point to her still being alive.

In the episode "End of the Beginning" during Pyrrha and Cinder's fight, Cinder raises her bow and shoots an arrow, so Pyrrha retaliates by throwing her shield in the arrow's path. We get a clear closeup of the arrow "teleporting" around the shield. The arrow's physical form is dispersed into amber-coloured flakes and re-assembled on the other side of the shield. Cinder even does this with bow before shooting the final arrow, which she shouldn't have even had to do because the bow was in her hand in the previous scene. It looked to me like they were perposely drawing attention to the fact that Cinder can teleport stuff. Cinder incapacitated Pyrrha and teleported her off somewhere.

Don't forget, Cinder saw Pyrrha and Jaune with Ozpin. It would make sense for them to capture and interrogate Pyrrha for all she knows.

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This next one gets a bit meta, so bear with me here.

In the episode "Rememberance" Ruby keeps having dreams about Pyrrha's final moments. But along with Pyrrha's final words are a few new lines of Pyrrha talking to Jaune. In the next dream sequence it's nothing but Pyrrha saying Jaune's name. After waking up, Ruby then hears Pyrrha's voice, but for real this time. But how can that be? She watched Pyrrha die. So Ruby goes to investigate while the audience is treated to new lines of dialogue from Pyrrha.

For this one scene the show seems to want to string along the audience into thinking that Pyrrha might not actually be dead. I don't see why they'd want to present it in this way though. They already did a much more tasteful callback to Pyrrha's death in the previous episode. With another tasteful callback in the final episode. Why would they include a whole scene to bating the audience if it was just to remind us that Pyrrha is dead and Jaune is sad. We already knew that. It makes more sense for this scene to place the seed in the mind of the audience that Pyrrha might still be alive.

It seems the only reason this scene was written in this way is to tell the audience that Pyrrha is definitely dead forever, but it comes off like they were trying to say the exact opposite.

This one's a little bit more inexact and open to other interpretations but I'm pretty confident that it ties in nicely.

In the episode "Tipping Point" when Tyrian confronts team RNJR he makes reference to being interested in Jaune, but not of the others (with his goal being Ruby, obviously). Why would Tyrian be interested in Jaune? The only reason I can think of takes us back to my first point about Pyrrha getting teleported into Salem's care. If Pyrrha was being interrogated, she may have been forced to talk about why she and Jaune were with Ozpin. I'm sure Cinder would have remembered that Jaune was present for the trasfer of the Maiden's power.

Those are the three biggest things I can think of off the top of my head. I've thought about this a lot since the final episode of Volume 3 aired. I think it was on my second viewing that I noticed the "teleportation" stuff. So right from the beginning of Volume 4 I was looking out of clues that Pyrrha might still be alive. As far as I see it, it's all but officially confirmed.

But I do really hope that I'm wrong and that she's dead for real. It's done great stuff for Jaune's character and really cemented that the next arc is going to force the characters to grow up. Bringing Pyrrha back feels like the writers trying to have their cake and eat it too.