Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161023154654/@comment-14138255-20161027153855

HighCastle67 wrote: ChishioKunrin wrote:

(Just to clarify, I don't think she was brainwashed; it's just that someone (was it LiveandSound or SYUTK?) kept saying that Blake was probably brainwashed by the White Fang into thinking that Faunus are horribly discriminated against and thus we cannot take literally anything she says seriously at all) (This comment is in support)

There's also the fact that the WF radicalized only 5 years ago, meaning that Blake grew up in a group that wanted peaceful resolution until about age 12. The WF was MLK for a few decades before recently becoming Malcolm X. If those two adults in Blake's part of the intro are her parents, I can see her rebelling against them, agreeing with Adam and the White Fang's methods since they actually found results for a change. Then when it was getting more violent and her opinion of Adam waned, she ended up being disillusioned, and realized her parents were right about the Fang and what was happening to them. I can see her arc half learning to let people who love her into her life despite the risks (Sun) and reconciling with her parents for her part in the New Fang (her parents).