Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24218038-20131202202153/@comment-14909251-20131209235137

Maki Kuronami wrote: Clarification: She considers them misguided, but she knows they're doing it for something good, even if it was violent. However, she doesn't want to partake in the more violent activities. So she GTFO when she had the chance.

Then Roman shows up. That's when she fully abandons the White Fang. I don't know about that. When you think about it, she talked of having been "practically born into" the White Fang, she clearly grew up as a member of the group, and developed strong personal bonds with members such as Adam. Then you have Sun calling it a "cult" and it makes you wonder if he was not entirely exaggerating. A young girl in her situation could have come to see the White Fang as her family, particularly if she did not have any family of her own, and them being more than accommodating in indulging those feelings of kinship. One can imagine the desire to return to one's family would be quite strong no matter how much wrong they have done.

My feeling is that her reasons for leaving are not some meager philosophical difference as she tries to portray it, but a more personal conflict over what she was doing as a member of the group. Her having done a few bloody deeds would be part of that. At the same time she would feel as though she had betrayed and abandoned her only real family. There would thus be conflicting sources of guilt and conflicting loyalties. She may have left more out of fear of what she would become if she stayed.

We may even have hints of her being conflicted about leaving the White Fang. Her reading Jekyll and Hyde in Episode 3 may be a reference to her own struggle between the person she was becoming in the White Fang and the person she wants to be as a huntress. The song Wings may also have a little hint where it talks of the person being described in the song "feeling fake" and not standing the "thought of being stray" and it does seem like that whole is talking about Blake. Her new start outside the White Fang has largely been about being a fake, pretending that she is a normal human girl when she is not. She is a "stray" from the White Fang and so it could be suggesting that she actually does not like being away from them.