Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20180123171649/@comment-2001:8A0:D21C:B401:89BD:3658:6593:6CF2-20180126182209

73.Anon.52 wrote: I don't(particularly want "red eyes" to be a thing), I'm just saying it is entirely possible other, lesser, magic abilities are also being passed down through lineages Ozpin has lost track of that ultimately may or may not enter into the narrative... he's been at this a long time through many generations, and Emerald was an orphan whose family could have died in an incident where he thought she died, so telling anyone about the power would be a moot point as to his mind it no longer exists, alternatively the list could be so long it takes a day to recall all the insignificant abilities he's given away.

I'm not saying this should happen, just that it could(and that possibilities such as these tend to make the story interesting even if left unexplored). There is still no reason to believe red eyes means any sort of magic and if we're using that logic: why not blue eyes are special? amber eyes? etc.

And I couldn't disagree more with your last sentence. Just because you add more magic, it doesn't make a story interesting. And if it is unexplored, then it makes the story seem like it wasn't planned, things happen just because and yet another asspull. Why add something just because? That's just bad writing.



And  73.Anon.52 wrote:

I mean, if he saw them as useful, don't you think he would've trusted them to allies centuries ago? OR, that more likely he had something like beastboy transformation to start with and parsed it out over the centuries while keeping Corvus transformations to himself?

And I don't even get what point you're trying to make.

I think his magic is unspecific. Meaning he can do whatever the hell he wants at any point, albeit with some limitations. You talked like he had a collection of powers and just decided to distribute them. Yes, he has probably given powers to somebody else, but the Maidens are the most powerful ones, so maybe that's why their powers are transmitted and others are not. Furthermore, those powers aren't transmitted via inheritance per se, they are via thoughts or random, so Em's family history is irrelevant. Not to mention that neither Yang or her have shown any sort of magic (and I really hope they don't besides Maidens or birds - I am ok with Qrow dying).

If Raven or Qrow died, would someone else inherit those powers? Even if that's true, why would eye color be affected? The Maidens' eye color differ from Maiden to Maiden even if of the same thing: Amber's brown eyes, Cinder's amber ones.

Finally, you suggested Ozpin forgot he gave those powers.

1) Sometimes, we "forget" things but them they are remembered by a trigger. If Ozpin's magic related to red eyes, then those would be a trigger and would remind him.

2) It would mean Ozpin is even more incompetent than I already think he is. I barely have any respect for the guy as a person who is in charge of the fate of the world - there are teenagers who would probably be better at handling it than him - but to lose track of giving magic... wth!? For a person whose motto is "we can't let the world know there's magic otherwise chaos", one would think keeping track of who has magic and can reveal to the world the existance of it would be pretty damn important.