#some of yall need to chill

I genuinely believe that Jaune had no good choice to make in “The Final Word”. It was either save Penny and let Weiss die, or save Weiss and let Penny die. I’m pretty sure that Penny knew that too.

Weiss was fighting a Maiden-Grimm hybrid all on her own, and her only backup was Jaune (who was currently occupied with Penny) and Penny (who was currently a liability in more ways than one). If Jaune stayed with Penny to heal/protect her, Weiss would die. If Jaune backed up Weiss, Cinder would realize that Penny’s unguarded and make a beeline for her and finish the job.

“Couldn’t Jaune use his Aura Amp to save Penny?” They didn’t have any time. Healing someone from a fatal stab wound isn’t instantaneous, no matter how much you’ve trained your healing semblance. Cinder was literal moments away from killing Weiss when Jaune did what he had to do. If Jaune decided to not listen to Penny’s choice and try to heal her anyway, Weiss would be in the Void at best and literal dust at worst, not to mention the fact that now Jaune’s the only obstacle in Cinder’s way to the Winter Maiden, because you know there’s no way in hell he got much of Penny unstabbed enough for her to at least run away.

Penny knew that Weiss was in danger. Penny knew that Cinder was too dangerous to be able to have two of the Maidens. Penny also knew that Jaune was the only one around who could help.

In the end, both Penny and Jaune had no good choices to make.