Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4403232-20140411230237/@comment-24400457-20140612175939

Blake was knocked down. She was not knocked out. Oh and I know I'm being really fucking pernickity but both Sun and Blake's exchanges with Roman were ten seconds long, and Sun has an advantage because he's a brawler so he can easily apply more pressure than Blake (which Roman shrugged off effortlessly). And, again, I think, if Blake had taken Roman now then that brief break in Sun's attack (or at least the next brief break that would have followed ten or so seconds later) would have been exploited by Roman to take Sun down to. Neither actually did anything, it's just that no one was there to save Blake from taking the rib blow.

Cardin - I really don't care. To me, Cardin was a catalyst for conflict. A throwaway villain that could easily have been forgotten about forever after his final scene in Forever Fall Part 2. I have absolutely no interest in his character, if gets more development maybe that will change, but my thoughts on him, Jaune and that entire arc are pretty well known.

I will say this though: I think any untouchability factor from other students comes from his choice in victim rather than his size or name. People may not discriminate against Velvet, but that doesn't mean that everyone sympathsies with her when she's discriminated against. And Jaune... well Jaune is quite clearly the weakest fighter we've seen thus far. Many people could see him as lucky to be in Beacon and, therefore, that he should be grateful for what he's got and could see Cardin's bullying as some sort of initiation or maybe even deserved. I imagine he could be met with a much different response if he targetted Yang, Weiss, Pyrrha or (maybe) one of Velvet's teammates. All three look like they could have the "mass leader"/big dog feel to them.