Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-32354841-20180312143812/@comment-25936766-20180315012157

>Was the excuse used by the writers to justify Jaune the Noob not dying by falling.

>Taught Jaune how to use his goddamn shield.

SUCH IMPORTANCE TO THE PLOT.

Dude, outside Jaune, Pyrrha is nothing. Before Volume 3 she was barely more important to the overall plot than Cardin was, for pretty much the same reason: Her entire character was based around Jaune, based around being his dogged love interest.

Jaune not dying in the Initiation could've been done in a different way. Jaune bothering to learn how to fight decently didn't even need Pyrrha to exist for it to happen. And Word of God was that her death was planned from pretty much the beginning of the show by Monty himself.

So yeah, she was made just to be Jaune's love interest, and then give him something to angst about. And beyond that, she was completely irrelevant to the plot, to Cinder and Roman and the White Fang (Yes, the same goes for the rest of JNPR, but that doesn't change the facts).

She did gain importance to the overall plot when Maidens became a thing and she almost became one with Amber....but an arrow to the heart derailed that possibility.