Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20170101170328/@comment-14909251-20170102002615

I'm talking about Blake's whole story. Just like they haven't given us any cause to believe the Faunus experience any serious racism, they haven't given us any reason to sympathize with Blake's situation. We are told essentially that Blake lives in a country for her own people, raised by loving parents who are deeply understanding and apparently able to provide for her well beyond the average person Faunus or human, yet she still turned against her parents and has a generally sour attitude towards everyone. So far, the storyline for Weiss have given us every reason to sympathize with her. Being irritable in the beginning of the series can now pretty much be written off as a product of an extremely challenged upbringing worse than any of the others except in a shallow material sense. A father who is controlling and abusive, a mother who is physically present yet emotionally absent, with the only family member present and caring being essentially driven away by the environment.