So if the puppet runs out of HP, the user will die as well? That does put a limit on many of the possibilities I was wondering about. But also opens up several new ones. You could use rally skills on the character/puppet and also be boosting the other at the same time from across the map.
Would skills like "Distinguished Son" and "Battle Comand" effect both as long as just one of them is within range of the user?
And has anybody made a list of skills that appear to have been lost from Awakening? I haven't seen Acrobat, Armsthrift (for obvious reasons), Healtouch, Hit Rate +20, Quick/Slow Burn, Conquest, Shadow Gift (Noooo!...), or Rightful King (And here I was hoping we'd get access to Rightful God lol).