Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14061097-20131111023452/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140117022809

Pyrrhomaniac wrote:

24.27.126.85 wrote: As stated before, Pyrrha has magnetic powers, which could seriously mess with not only Penny, but any metal weapon. This is exactly why I think Pyrrha will win.

This also makes me wonder what would happen if Pyrrha is electrocuted or tasered. Would she create an... EMP? o_O On the irrelevant note: Pyrrha is a name lost to time, in fact I don't think very many people even knew Pyrrha was a name outside of Greek mythology. It's not a name you get asked to spell so it makes sense that people may see Pyrrha as spelled "Pyrha", "Pyrrah", "Pyrah" or some other variant. Honestly I first believed it to be spelled "Pyrrah" until I started digging a bit more into character references.

Back onto the more relevant note:

It's so much that I couldn't see Pyrrha winning as much as it would be that I just don't see her winning it. From a narrative standpoint she's not relevant enough to any kind of plot, and I don't see a way to connect her to said potential story arcs, she's also an ideal character to use for the Worf Effect alongside Yang and Ren in order to give Mr X from Atlas and Mrs Y from Vacuo an instant badass factor and quite frankly, The First Step Part 1 made it a point to go out of it's way to make us all certain that Pyrrha is a boss, almost to the point of triple checking that we recognise that she is good.

She doesn't need the win to legitimise her as a big deal. Truth be told Ruby, Yang, Pyrrha, Ren, Weiss and Penny stand to gain absolutely no real benefit from winning the Vytal Festival Tournament. We know they are badasses. In fact, if anything I believe it would only hurt Weiss's character since, given the fact that she is already a little obnoxious she would likely brag about it and would go from "Eh, she's the overconfident one, she's still likeable though." to "For fuck sake, can she stop talking about how she won that bastard tournament."

That's how I see it anyways. Truly likely contenders to win it in my opinion boil down to three people:

3) Jaune, as the darkhorse in the tournament it's possible that Jaune could have the come from behind, feel good, David vs. Goliath match-up against Penny, or whoever else may be in the final. Likely with the support of a potentially injured or at least eliminated Ruby, Yang and Pyrrha (and potentially Ren and Nora) he could pull it off in the most incredible upset. Still I don't think he's ready for THAT kind of a win since participants have already begun arriving.

2) Ruby. Ruby has huge plot armour and main character hax. It's entirely possible that Ruby is given the win purely because she's the main character. It's an unwritten (and terrible) rule that the main character always overcomes in the end. It's, rather disappointingly, rarely forgotten. I wouldn't be surprised to see Ruby as the go-to defeater of Penny or a finalist entrant from Cinder's Human-WF alliance.

1) Blake. She's on here not so much as the fact that she has the place in the narrative to do but because she could easily be positioned to have a place in the narrative to do it. And because she stands the most to gain from such a victory. Blake has been used to give new characters and enemy instant Badass Factor for the entirety of Volume 1 and it's hurt her image, to the point where there is a repeatedly re-awakening "Blake seems weak" thread that I'm sick to death of posting the same response in. Blake needs a major victory. She has a close connection with Team RWBY so if anything did happen to the members of the team she could theoretically be put in a position of sympathy, empathy or at least showing a sign of cold-hearted caring. She's also one of the few characters whom I believe could believed defeat Penny (alongside Pyrrha, Weiss, Ruby and Ren) due to her semblance. She is also another main character giving her an immediate edge over Ren who has served as way too much of a bit player and Pyrrha who still seems to me to have no reason to win the tournament unless they make someone absolutely destroy Jaune, which kind of does too much to lock out the rest of the cast save Ruby.(the only reason a Yang sacrifice would work is because the obvious winner Ruby would be shut out almost immediately after).