I love RWBY but I'll never understand the second death. I mean the fact that she became the winter maiden instead of Winter not only validated what Ruby said in V2 about her having a soul, but also drove home the contrast between Penny and Winter, where Penny (as a robot) was more driven by emotion than Winter's military "do as you're told" mindset. Nevermind that becoming human opened up lots of development opportunities for future volumes where Penny learns more about being human (like tasting food, physically experiencing fear, etc). And you could have even had Winter suffer an injury where maybe she needs a robotic arm replacement (maybe kind of similar to Ironwood) to keep that contrast going. And all this could be done while still having Ruby believe she had died again while trapped in the ever after, if that's the only reason they did it. Ruby already fell before Penny died, so it's not like they couldn't just have them see Penny in a desperate situation and think that she didn't make it. Thats one of the few things I hate in the show lol. One of the others being that the moon looks like that because the god of darkness bonked his head on the way out when you have a perfectly good relic called the sword of destruction that could have been the cause of it lol
I love RWBY but I'll never understand the second death. I mean the fact that she became the winter maiden instead of Winter not only validated what Ruby said in V2 about her having a soul, but also drove home the contrast between Penny and Winter, where Penny (as a robot) was more driven by emotion than Winter's military "do as you're told" mindset. Nevermind that becoming human opened up lots of development opportunities for future volumes where Penny learns more about being human (like tasting food, physically experiencing fear, etc). And you could have even had Winter suffer an injury where maybe she needs a robotic arm replacement (maybe kind of similar to Ironwood) to keep that contrast going.
And all this could be done while still having Ruby believe she had died again while trapped in the ever after, if that's the only reason they did it. Ruby already fell before Penny died, so it's not like they couldn't just have them see Penny in a desperate situation and think that she didn't make it.
Thats one of the few things I hate in the show lol. One of the others being that the moon looks like that because the god of darkness bonked his head on the way out when you have a perfectly good relic called the sword of destruction that could have been the cause of it lol
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