Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30450220-20170626021526/@comment-25936766-20170731203827

Okay, Wikia decided to eat my post. How lovely.

Almost as lovely as you making that huge wall of text for no discernible good reason. Don't do that again. It makes it a pain to even try to read, let alone follow.

If you're getting too angry to use the Enter button, use it anyway.

Mhalpern wrote:

1) Vol 2 Mountain Glenn Yang repeatedly downplays herself to bring Blake up.

2) Vol 3 oh is there a lot in Vol 3, we see that Yang has essentially given Blake the power to emotionally DESTROY her, that is beyond friendship

3) Vol 3 again all body language and vocal ques during the encounter with Adam.

4) Vol 3 Yang is audibly angry that Blake left.

5) Vol 4 ep 3 depending on your interpretation of the scene, Yang looks at the books  and chooses to watch TV instead could be that she is still hurt, which would imply more than friendship or it could be that she doesn't feel like reading making this a weak point.

6) her outfit design at the end of Vol 4 that will be used in Vol 5, in addition to painting her arm black and yellow (which could be a visual pun) she has a purple piece of cloth tied just above the knee, purple is one of Blakes colors

7) You can say the same about Sun,

8) but again some of Blake's biggest hurts seem to involve Yang and I am not just talking about the arm. We don't put that much emotional stake in others unless we care very deeply about them

9) Oh really so we can hear Blake's deepest thoughts now? Since when? People can hide layers and layers of emotion behind a personal facade, and we as outside observers can only hope to catch glimpses of what's behind the mask. 1) I thought Yang, Weiss and Blake were just mentioning to each other how they were not fully honest with what they told Oobleck. Simple honesty between teammates, sans Ruby. Nothing that requires romantic interest, just a good friendship.

2) And when the hell did we see that? It sounds like you saw a cup of water and thought you found an ocean.

3) Bullshit. You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

>She saw her friend getting beaten up and stabbed. Yang is not a pussy, so instead of, say, taking a selfie, or running away, of course she's gonna get angry. It would've been out of character if she did anything else.

>Since Yang is no coward, and because her MO so far was "charge first, think later", that's exactly what she did. She charged at Adam without thinking things through, like always.

4) Yang was already abandoned by her mother, Raven, who she didn't even know existed until Taiyang spitted it out one day.

Now Blake, who, unlike Raven, Yang did meet, was her friend and partner and had been for months, abandoned Yang like Raven did. Without a single note, during a crisis, while Yang was unconscious right after getting dismembered.

Of-fucking-course Yang will be so hurt by that.

5) That was just to hammer the point of how depressed Yang was. Any romantic interest she has or had for anyone was irrelevant. She could've loved Jaune or Cardin or Port and the scene wouldn't be affected, because the point of the scene was to show us her depression, nothing more.

6) She always had a purple cloth, actually. Even before meeting Blake.

7) No, I cannot. Unless you want me to make a straw argument and deliberately ignore every single scene he and Blake had together since Volume 1.

Like that time, when they first saw each other, and Blake was practically stunned when Sun ran past her and winked at her. In slow-mo, to boot. Compare with the way she met Yang, which didn't even try to make it a big deal.

8) Exactly. But here's the thing: You don't need to love someone romantically, to care that deeply for them. And Blake isn't just hurt about Yang. She's hurt about Team RWBY. She didn't abandon 1 person, she didn't just care about 1 single person. She had 3 friends, 7 if we include JNPR. And of those 7, she at least cared much about 3 of them, her teammates.

9) We have eyes, or at least I do and I hope you do. We can see her expressions, her reactions, and draw conclusions.

Hence, like I told you in point 7: I cannot say the same about Sun, due to what we can clearly observe in her interactions with him, starting with the moment they met.