2: he turned around to check on the situation (screaming, pain and such). The fault is not his. It is Ozpin’s for not informing Jaune of the possibility of such an outcome. Second, how the feck would he have been able to even slow Cinder down? ”Keeping your shield up” doesn’t amount to anything when Cinder can just split her arrows, reform them behind you and kill the person behind you. Amber’s death is Cinder’s and Ozpin’s fault (Ozpin’s by virtue of negilgence), not Jaune’s.

3: Moot point. No other students besides Ren and Nora were around to tag along with Pyrrha and Ozpin. And even if there had been anyone else around... Cinder with only half the Maiden’s power was able to bring even Adam to heel. Any student who would have put up a fight would have been dead faster than they could have said ”Ozpin, behind you!”. Pyrrha would not have been any (or at least not much) stronger until she had gotten a bit of training with her new powers.





As for whose fault Pyrrha’s death is: Cinder is ultimately responsible, being the killer and all. Ozpin set the whole thing up And failed to deal with it in time, put the stupid idea in Pyrrha’s head in the first place, failed to instruct Jaune adeqately on what to do and how to do it. Pyrrha herself, as she desided to abandon reason and charge at an enemy who had all the advantages (be it location, ammo on hand, fatigue, backup, etc), and went against the one sensible order Ozpin ever gave.

Jaune?... no. He tried, and even if he had been stronger it would not have changed anything.



as for Jaune’s guilt: he faces his guilt like he should, constantly working on improving himself so that it won’t happen again. But a certain level of blame should be placed on everyone else involved as well.

Late to the game but:1: as first years, the only danger should have been the initiation. Anything else would have been supervised by proper professionals ready to intervene.