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Kyramus wrote: Just my 2 cents here. 1) Pyrrha- in the series they take it as fact that she is "gone".  Everyone (us) saw the scene and we have a lot of mixed thoughts and feelings.  At first view, I assumed her death too.  But in subsequent viewings and how far reaching the plan had been.  I am starting to speculate that Pyrrha didn't die, but transported elsewhere.  Here are my reasons. a) Cinder mentions to add Pyrrha to a list. What ever this list is, it isn't just for the tournament humiliation, it could be something else that we don't know about. Especially when you know that Atlas has created a machine that can "transfer someone's aura to another person". Can you imagine what would happen if someone collected a bunch of powerful semblences and transfered their auras to one person? b) The arrow that hit Pyrrha's heel.  It was transported past the shield.  That same effect could be mistaken as the incineration effect that Ruby saw. c) destiny is believed by both Pyrrha and Cinder. Cinder might be thinking that Pyrrha's power is destined to go to someone. Pyrrha believes she is destined to save people and while Pyrrha's death was something needed to trigger Ruby and make Jaune grow. I don't believe it is her final fate... yet.

The problem with this is Jen Brown clearly indicated on Twitter that Pyrrha is gone. I would note that Brown never explicitly described her as dead, but used various euphemisms that could easily mean something else. However, they all do mean that Pyrrha isn't going to be talking in any present setting for the RWBYverse and presumably won't make any further appearances in the strictest sense. That wouldn't preclude something to the effect of what you are saying nor would it preclude the Ambyrrha theory, but it does preclude anything that involves Pyrrha walking and talking and probably any other sort of physical appearance on her part.

6) Ozpin is alive, a prisoner.  The narrator/Salem is talking to Ozpin (vol 1 opening and vol 3 ending).  They obviously know each other.  Ozpin is on the side of life. Salem is on the side of the Grimm/death.  I'm wondering if they are twins that just don't see eye to eye. I admit it did seem like Salem was talking directly to Ozpin rather than speaking as if he was there when he was absent. While that could mean he is now her captive, thus explaining why he is nowhere to be seen, it is also possible they were having a conversation via some other method. A long while back I suggested Ozpin may be communicating with the Big Bad, whom we now know to be Salem, and that is why he seemed exhausted in Volume 1 before giving his brief speech to the freshmen. I compared this to how Aragorn used the Palantir in the Lord of the Rings to challenge Sauron and how that left him feeling weak afterwards.