[quote=@Prince of Seraphs] [hider] What possible purpose could that serve? They wanted Pyyrha to seem ruthless and Penny to be revealed. Why would they make Penny seem more powerful and thus Pyyrha's counterattack necessary. That just promotes the notion of 'Pyrrha had no choice' which is the opposite of what Ember's broadcast was meant to suggest. [/hider] [/quote] [hider] Piecing together what Emerald said before (I'm also assuming it's her semblance that causes illusions), there's no way that she can broadcast an illusion for the entire stadium, if doing it to only two people gives her a headache. But she only needed to do it on one person, Pyyrha, in order to make it look like Pyrrha was being as ruthless as Yang was perceived to be. It made Pyrraha panic and go overboard, just as Yang went overboard punching Mercury when she thought he was trying to attack her. [/hider] [hider=Similarly related] Man, what happened to Penny reminds me of what happened to Gren during his first match against one of the students. His hand was outright destroyed, and now I'm somewhat plotting an idea of having someone inadvertently destroy Gren similarly... [/hider]