Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160216033644/@comment-3257939-20160625052805

BenRG wrote: 207.250.82.194 wrote: BUT HEY. If you guys have been following rwby chibi at all, Pyrrha is still alive at the end and even ruby says"wait weren't you dead?" But Nora butts in and says "NOTHING BAD HAPPENED AT ALL, EEEVEEEEEEERRRRRRR That was just the crew's way of handling all the more obsessive fans asking whether RWBY Chibi is canon for the main show. Though it's also another reference to Pyrrha's death. That part explains why this spin-off isn't canon: The characters are aware that they're in a show. Just like in Red vs Blue Specials.

However, one could reason out that if these characters are pretending to live in a world where everything's fine then the fact that they  acknowledged Pyrrha's death shows that she was indeed dead in canon. They're just acting as if it never happened because this is a comedy show and everything is blown out of proportion.

Of course that's just a way to look at things. If you want another reference to Pyrrha's death then watch Miles and Kerry in one of RT's recent videos where Miles confirms that Pyrrha was turned into ashes or at least he uses that scene to tell a joke. I wish I could remember which video was it though.