Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160214165601/@comment-14909251-20160222020529

73.Anon.52 wrote:

It's not really plausible that amidst the destruction of the tower a huntsman appeared that can heal more effectively than the most advanced technical equipment available... because at that point Amber's body was failing, and the nearest hunter's were not the first to arrive(supposedly Qrow was first on the scene), the body should have been nearly drained of blood at that point(about as possible to resurrect as Pyrrha). Unless Ozpin took her as he disappeared there is just no way she was assisted externally within time. I'm not talking about external assistance. What annoys me here is that I explained in my first post how Amber could have died and then been revived. Her body was in tact and literally inside a machine designed to keep her alive. Presumably, it is also designed to at least attempt to rescuscitate her in the event that she were to die as they would want to avoid any chance that her powers might revert to Cinder and quickly reviving her would be one way to hopefully prevent it. We know Aura has some unusual healing abilities as well. Even in the real world you have cases where people were clincally dead for minutes, hours, days even and then come back, so I'm not going out on a limb here seeing as there is magic and shit in the RWBYverse.

Given all the complicated mess involved with Aura transfer and the fact the transfer was already underway before Cinder interrupted, the possibility of Amber's Aura going to Pyrrha was introduced. Should Amber's body had been revived during all that fighting then Pyrrha's aura with Amber's attached might revert back to a partially revived body and their combined Auras increase their healing effect to the point of fully reviving her and since Pyrrha's body was incinerated right before Ruby froze that Dragon Grimm and maybe Cinder, then Ambyrrha would only have to worry about escaping the lesser Grimm.

One benefit is that it would mean all the foreshadowing they were doing up to this point was not completely wasted on a whole lot of nothing. All that business about what they were messing with, the uncertainty of what an Aura transfer would cause, and how she would be afterwards, it would not just have been one giant bout of pointless filler exposition. This would allow RT to play out the moral implications of the secret club's little experiment on Pyrrha in a way that was unexpected by the viewers.

What I am talking about wouldn't even require Pyrrha to be "alive" per se given the time that would have passed up to the end of the volume. Allowing time for the whole two souls in one body thing to play out to conclusion means they could introduce Ambyrrha well after the conflict and confusion of their situation was resolved. Essentially, they could have already settled into a situation where they merged or, for a little more angst, where Pyrrha's consciousness was effectively subsumed by Amber's yet with her potentially retaining certain memories, feelings, and mannerisms of Pyrrha's at the same time.