Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20161123135722/@comment-4010415-20161123152810

KNN005 wrote: I just don't see them doing a very special episode for Penny or Torch this point. And for someone's semblance to be in a flashback but never used even as they were about to die seems like bad writing. I don't think they always fully think these characters powers thru. I think story wise they think about it. But battle wise I don't think they care it fans know everything about a characters fighting style or semblance. Penny might not have had a Semblance or might not have found her Semblance yet, and we could find out more about her considering Weiss is in Atlas and they actually made the effort of partially showing Penny's creator in volume 3.

Neo is still wandering around, so maybe the might show a flashback from her perspective to show us more about Torchwick.

Moving the plot forward and telling us about the characters is a delicate balance. They can't just halt or slow the plot or sidetrack to some random insertion of info about a character or their past. They need to find a way to smoothly add that info, like they did with Yang's reveal about her looking for her biological mother. That was smoothly put into the story because the whole reason Yang told Blake that story was to teach her a lesson and get her to slow down for the sake of her health. That scene served to both tell us more about Yang and give Blake a bit of growth.