Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141003002601/@comment-24994749-20141005220409

Stringtheory wrote: I don't recall this flashback, when was it? The only flashback I remember for Blake is Volume 1, Episode 16. Guess I have to go back and rewatch at least one episode.

EDIT: Ah, you were talking about Episode 16. Eh, it's hard to tell what the humans were trying to do to the faunus, There's definately the threat of beating, though it's hard to tell if it's a full on lynching. But yes I can see your point of Blake reflecting on it. However, the counterpoint I'd bring up is that in the same rant she mentioned that the White Fang only really started getting results was when they turned to violence. Where that leaves Blake is an interesting situation. She removed herself from that movement after realizing that the violence was too much, to pursue a career that would help everyone. And really, I don't see her going back to peaceful protests either, due to seeing first hand that they were ineffective. Well, about the whole peaceful protest being innefective, Blake did say that when she attended the boycotts and rallies as a child she felt they were making a difference... then she discards that feeling as being "a youthful optimist".

Blake might have indeed seen results steaming from their peaceful actions, but, she was also only 12 years old when the leadership change happened. It would have been very easy for the adults in charge to manipulate her so whatever achievements she saw the Peaceful White Fang accomplish looked minimal or non-existent and to exalt in her eyes the "results" on the more violent actions.

However, Blake is clearly able to think on her own and critically (otherwise she wouldn't have been able to make the decision of leaving). And now that she is away from the White Fang she might be able to sit and weight her memories from each type of action. She has already expressed that she knows that the equality faunus achieved throught violent actions came from fear, not respect and that was one of the things that factored into her decision of leaving the White Fang.

The Devil's Advocate WP wrote: MetallicArcher wrote: Thing is, during the SHining Beacon, Blake first calls Weiss "Heiress" to the SDC to which she react with pride and then, when Blake brings up the "problems" about the SDC business is when Weiss shows personal offend. THat's why I say that at that point, Weiss took her family name with pride. Blake's initial comment could be taken as personal praise akin to "This girl is very important and of high class" until the follow-up where it is really just a way to diss here. Just saying the idea that Weiss somehow changed her attitude on the company since being there is not really credible in my mind. Seems like she always had a bit of a problem with the SDC and that is implied at other times in Volume 1 and by Monty. Not sure if Blake has had any significant effect on that. Thing is, aside from Blake's tone in that scene being rather condescending or neutral at the very best, you only react with that much pride to being called the heir of something, or being identified as a member of a family if you are proud of the legacy of your family name.

That doesn't mean she didn't have problems at home already, I'm 100% with the theory that that scar on her eye was her father's doing and I wouldn't be surprised if she had deliberately chosen an Academy as far away from home as possible.

But, and I'm speaking from personal experience here, there is a difference between getting on well with your family and taking pride in the reputation of your family name.

My mother isn't the owner of a multinational company, but she owns her own business, and it has her name, and while we live in a fairly big city, law regulations make it so that there aren't many chemist's per neighbourhood so pretty much everyone around knows her. If you walk up to me and when I say my name you ask me if I'm related to her, I'm going to say yes, and you better not badmouth her cause we might not get on well all the time but she is a self-made, honest woman, the first in my family to acquire an University degree.