Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4403232-20140411230237/@comment-14909251-20140618042026

Shadow at Morning wrote: I've been mostly operating under the assumptions that people have here (pretty much what Andrew said), but Advocate's point is well-taken. In fairness, though, Weiss is also not a social climber in the same way Pyrrha is used to. She's probably had to deal with similar things, given her position as heiress. It's possible (though perhaps unlikely; Pyrrha doesn't seem sufficiently calculating, unlike Weiss) that she was so readily agreeable because she thought partnering with Weiss would insulate her from sycophancy.

I too disbelieve the love-at-first-sight hypothesis; however, I think we can give a reasonable account of their initial interactions, which are, of course, the most unccountable. (The following may be rationalization.) Consider:

Pyrrha is a star athlete, well-known, and presumably accustomed to sycophants. More importantly, she is polite, compassionate, and helpful.

When Pyrrha first sees Jaune, he and Ruby have just come into the hall, as stragglers. With Pyrrha by the door, that alone may have been enough to attract her attention, and if not, Jaune's shout of "Hey, wait!" probably would have, and she wonders what that incident was. Initially, he pings as nothing more than some guy, who she may consider reasonably atttractive. Not much, but enough for him to stand out as a slightly more interesting person than the rest of the crowd.

When Weiss approaches her, she initially equivocates, then readily agrees (possibly to avoid sycophants, as above). There's the gag with the stormcloud, plotting Weiss, and Jaune, then Pyrrha leans in to introduce herself. This could be explained by a combination of recognition ('Oh! Hey, the guy from yesterday.'), politeness, and that he interrupted their conversation ('I'm here too, y'know.'). Pyrrha then chimes in with the information about team composition, at which point he slides over to her position, where she is visibly taken aback, then Weiss interposes herself. I admit to not having a good explanation to the "Hello again!" other than politeness, which is a bit weak. All the while, Pyrrha is watching Jaune closely, possibly gauging his reaction to her. When Weiss breaks out the cereal box thing, Pyrrha's clearly embarrassed, but rallies to a PR soundbite quickly. Her words of encouragement come only after Jaune pulls the "I'm not worthy" routine, probably because it's her second day at college and people are already deferring to her, which irritates her, and so she attempts to level the playing field. Then, she's offscreen for a while, and we get the fairly bewildering spear toss, and an apology for overreacting. Then a fairly standard farewell.

On the cliff, Pyrrha, being a seasoned competitor, gauges her "competitors" out of habit, and notices Jaune is particularly nervous. Having landed herself, she immediately surveys her surroundings, and notices Jaune is tumbling through the air, and saves him, while apologizing for possible injury. She then goes over and retrieves her weapon, echoing a line from earlier, because she's on this guy's team, and needs to get to know him better.

I think this chain of events is plausible. Feel free to break down my logic.

What I really want is an explanation for why she initially pinned him to a wall. And she seems to have an interesting sense of humor. I do think that is basically it. Doubt she saw him as particularly attractive, but otherwise yes. He left an impression and for various reasons they kept getting near each other. I doubt she really sees it as love, even if it is just that. She likes to help people and Jaune needs a lot of help. The result is that they do a lot of bonding.