Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603162025/@comment-92.236.194.211-20160722025253

I rewatched the final episode of Vol 3, and something suddenly struck me.

We all know that Jaune is based on Joan of Arc. We all know that Joan of Arc burned to death. So a lot of assumptions have been made about Jaune's potential fate.

But Jaune was going to fight Cinder alongside Pyrrha. Instead, Pyrrha got Jaune out of there. And how did Pyrrha die? Incinerated. The death of Joan of Arc. In effect, Pyrrha took Jaune's death. And if that can happen, then all bets are off. Let's face it, if a character's fate was so predictable, why bother watching, right?

And I know that Pyrrha was based on Achilles, but she didn't die from that arrow shot. More significant was her name, and it's kinship to King Pyrrhos. Pyrrha gave Ruby a truly pyrrhic victory over Cinder. They beat her, but the cost was the loss of Beacon, part of Vale, and Pyrrha herself. In part, I am coming to regard who a character was based on as being of less importance. There are too many other factors in play.