Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-162.203.244.171-20130726023326/@comment-26206856-20150318025040

Spartacus400 wrote: It's actually pretty decent evidence. We can assume the masks get more ornate the higher in rank you are in the WF (Banesaw's mask was cooler than the mooks, and Adam's was even more so). Neo being afraid of her isn't exactly evidence, but it could be said that since she's working with the WF (through Torchwick), she knows some of the higher ups in the WF, and she was TERRIFIED of Raven. I'll agree that it should be assumed the more ornate the mask, the higher the rank. However, Adam seemed to act like he was very high up, if not the leader at the end of Vol 2, and the 'mook' masks the new recruits got weren't much different aside from the red markings. Raven's is much larger, a very different shape, and more ornate. This would imply she is way above Adam, (making him very low level) or the leader.

If that was the case, then there would be conflicting motivations for her to backlash out against an 'ally'. Sure you could play the 'she's protecting her daughter' card, but then that would send up a red flag that the leader now shows sympathy for humans (until we're proven that Yang is part faunus) and that she's not actually approving of their new 'allies'. If she were that powerful, or a leader in charge, why not just tell Neo to back down and let her handle it instead of drawing a sword to run her off?