Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-28522425-20170610192334

Well, I've been listening to both "This Life is Mine" and "Like Morning Follows Night", and I have to say, I really hope we see more of Weiss and Blake's backstories next Volume.

I have some problems enjoying "This Life is Mine" because, even though the song is awesome, it feels somewhat... undeserved, know what I mean? Once again, we have a song of Weiss talking about how she has always been under the control of her father, and how she is finally breaking free. My problem is, we have barely seen her been treated like a pawn by her father at all. Sure, she was forced to sing in a concert, which was both inconsiderate and unnecesary, but not particularily terrible. And then we saw Jacques grounding her and disowning her after the fiasco of the charity ball, which was a very dickish thing to do, but understandable given all that happened during the night.

How little we have seen of Weiss been controlled by her father, coupled with the fact that I consider most of the bad things that happeed to her during Volume 4 to be at least partially her own fault, makes it hard for me to enjoy a song about how she is finally not a puppet anymore. I really hope that in the future they are going to show in more detail the things that Weiss had to go through during her childhood, like maybe showing that Jacques didn't allow her to choose her own friends, or pressured her to be perfect, or forced her to appear in concerts and commercials, or things like that.

I have a similar problem with "Like Morning Follows Night", or at least some of its lines. In the song, it seems like Blake regrets many of the things she has done. What sort of things? The only thing we saw her do was steal from a train, and that time she even made sure to save the crew. I would like it if we get more details about her life with the White Fang, and how she used to "live in shadows".

Given that both songs make several references to their past, I would really enjoy them better if Weiss and Blake's backstories were more fleshed out.