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The fall of May Marigold, told throughout three stories, is of course not without its fair share of horrifying moments.
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Reignfall
- The Fall of Beacon.
- May kicks of the fall with a scandal in the Arena; With Watts' help, she hacks into Penny's sensors, making her hallucinate that Cardin is still up and attacking her. This is told from Penny's perspective, as she gets messages that her system is updating, and her reading on Cardin's aura changes from 42% to 75%. And remains at 75%, even as Penny keeps attacking him, until she tries to strike a terrified Cardin with four of her swords at once... and feels them pierce through him, despite her vision clearly telling her that it just bounced of his aura. She just barely has enough time to realize that something is wrong before her system resets again, making her do the same attack again. Penny thought she was having a friendly match with a strong opponent. In reality, she was viscerally murdering a teenager.
- Penny's perspective is terrifying, as her perception starts breaking down, glitching and showing things that the audience knows is false. But since Penny is being hacked, she doesn't notice anything until it's far too late.
- May kicks of the fall with a scandal in the Arena; With Watts' help, she hacks into Penny's sensors, making her hallucinate that Cardin is still up and attacking her. This is told from Penny's perspective, as she gets messages that her system is updating, and her reading on Cardin's aura changes from 42% to 75%. And remains at 75%, even as Penny keeps attacking him, until she tries to strike a terrified Cardin with four of her swords at once... and feels them pierce through him, despite her vision clearly telling her that it just bounced of his aura. She just barely has enough time to realize that something is wrong before her system resets again, making her do the same attack again. Penny thought she was having a friendly match with a strong opponent. In reality, she was viscerally murdering a teenager.
- The first scene of chapter 18 is told from Lionheart's perspective. It's the first time we see post-Fall of Beacon May from someone else's perspective, and she is terrifying.
- She introduces herself by appearing out of thin air in Lionheart's office, standing behind him (and conveniently boxing him in with May on one side and Watts on the other). Lionheart's internal monologue makes it clear that the only thing that could be worse than this is if Salem herself decided to visit.
- When Lionheart gives her bad news about Ruby and JNPR arriving in Mistral, May gets furious to the point of genuine murderous intent, creating a miniature whirlwind in the office and slowly draining the air around Lionheart until he's left unable to breathe. Going by her dialogue accusing him of having turned tail back to Ozpin, May was fully intending on killing him until Watts stops her.
- Cinder very nearly wins her duel with May, until May crosses the Godzilla Threshold by drawing on her grimm infusion. The result is immense pain as her body grows claws and turns more grimm-like, the result being so horrifying that even Cinder stops her assault in shock. Said shock turns into horror as the transformed May attacks her with superhuman strength and speed, completely consumed with thoughts of ripping Cinder apart with her bare claws. The fact that May can sense Cinder's terror only further sements that she's blurring the line between human and grimm.
- After Emerald's betrayal, May's anger and hurt is so great that the Doppler takes over and she lunges at Emerald with sharpened claws and the intention of ripping her throat out.
