Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-11188061-20150628055853

@Christopherweeblingjr

Because you're you, I'm going to reply exactly one time and not anything else after, since it'll just be a waste of time.

1. Blake loved the White Fang for standing up for themselves and protecting their own rights. She left them afterwards because at some point those methods turned violent and bloody, and the sacrifices that eventually piled up far exceeds what she had expected and can stomach.

She hated the violence regardless of her own prejudice. However, she is definitely racist until after Black Trailer (where she took the first step), but it got diluted by her own escapade during V1E15 and Weiss' unexpected forgiveness (the fact that she thought Weiss wouldn't accept her is the sign of her deeprooted prejudice towards humans, and by that definition racism), and got it diluted somemore in Volume 2 as she slowly and finally began to warm up to her teammates and chose to save Weiss over exacting her hate towards Roman.

As for Weiss? Yes, she's definitely racist in Volume 1. She was willing to generalize the entire Faunu race as scum because the White Fang kept killing her family. But she was able to put aside that difference and accept Blake as being different from the ones who harmed her family (and in that sense admitting that she was wrong to generalize the Faunu). Towards Volume 2, she was clearly the one who actively bonded with Blake in their relationship, and made obvious efforts to assist Blake even if it might come off as a bit pretentious. It's a reason why I admired Volume 2 Weiss quite a bit and applaud her as the current character that experienced the most growth.

So is Weiss not racist then? No. She can still be racist; both of them can, may be, and most likely are still racist towards each other's races. As long as there's a difference humans can't really not be racist towards each other, even if they're not enemies (living in a country that boasts itself to be multiracial, I believe I understand better than most people exactly how pretentious and hypocritical it can be, especially on a national scale of things).

But between the two Weiss most definitely handled her appearance better than Blake did.

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2. V2E15 clearly shows that she does not, at least not in the sense you think she is. Working in a team and performing her job, yes - she has all the experience working with many different people during her time as a terrorist. Actually trusting her teammates, not in the sense of doing a job, but being actual friends and talking to them like a real person? A Faunu, maybe. A human, whom she had lived her entire life recognizing them as THE enemy? I doubt it'd ever be that simple.

After all, she chose to become a 'human' instead of a 'Faunu' so she can live among humans. Even during Volume 2, she still cannot take off her bow. Whether it's because she's afraid of the presecution she will face within human society, or that she's afraid that she'd realize that all this time she was just lying to herself, that in truth she still cannot forgive or accept the humans for all the wrongs they've done... we'll only know after Volume 2. The foreshadowing is all there already: Ozpin warned her, Roman outright slapped it onto her face.

3. Not sure what you're talking about. I'm providing an evidence that Blake is prejudice towards human. To put it simply, Ozpin is the good guy, and Roman the bad. While Blake has very good reasons to distrust and even openly hate Roman, she does not have a good reason to distrust Ozpin at all. In fact she looked as if she was just looking for that one careless, racial comment that will completely justify her distrust to him.

4. If Roman was a Faunu she wouldn't have killed him. Her actions thus far showed that she stand by her Faunu brethen very, very strongly, to the point that she will defend them even though their goal was the geonocide of humans (V1E15). If this was V1 Blake without the experience of V1E15 or the talk with Yang, there's no doubt in my mind that she'll kill Roman and thus lock herself down a path as terrible as Adam's.

But luckily she had those experiences, so she managed to control herself just enough that she didn't commit an irreversible crime. She's finally starting to realize her own ideal of 'punishing the people for their crime, not their superficial differences'.

However, until the day she finally lets down her own prejudice, until the day she finally takes off her bow and live proudly as who she are - thus realizing that she (Faunu) and the others (human) are actually all the same, that they are all just people - she will never truly stop being a racist.

5. As for the Velvet scene? Will you mind going through the Episode again, because I'm sure you got it completely backwards? 'He's not the only one...' I wonder who said that, hmmmm.