Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130310094020/@comment-28277272-20140404234532

(I feel this thread is becoming more epic with Weiss now being in the background)

I think Weiss's efforts to accept Faunus are extremely underestimated. First of all, the episode was made so people would side with Blake, thus making Weiss looks like the 'villain' (take this word lightly as I can't find another better one). Second of all... have you ever met racist, homophobic, sexist or any other kind of discriminatory people? I'm sure you have, everyone has. I'm not really one to judge too quickly, and I don't know what is going on inside their head, but I've rarely seen these people accepting what they previously thought was unacceptable, and certainly not within two days. Many racist, homophobic and sexist persons would never agree they need to reconsider their opinion, because they are sure they are right. That is actually the case of a lot of people, even those who aren't being discriminatory. But Weiss did reconsider her opinion, despite everything she was told and the traumatic experiences she had left. Within two freaking days. I don't think she has accepted Faunus entirely yet, I don't think she would hug Blake and be all friendly with her, but she has made one step toward tolerance, one huge step. She referred to Sun as "someone", instead of a rapscallion, thus admitting he wasn't worth less than a human, that he was a person. Gosh, am I the only one who got seriously surprised at this change?

She actually had this behavior twice before. First time, when she saved Ruby from the Death Stalker. ("And I suppose I can be a bit... difficult") This may be an understatement, but she somewhat managed to have an outside view of herself, and realize her behavior wasn't the best. Not many people are able to do it. Second time, when she talked to Ruby at night, admitting she had what it took to be a good leader. A few hours prior, she was being a brat yelling at Ruby, complaining, bragging about how superior she was, trying to make 'those in powers' to reconsider the leader of the team. But she still went her own way to talk to Ruby and admit she was wrong - once again, she didn't bluntly say it, but by contradicting herself, she still admitted her previous statement was wrong.

What I mean is, Weiss definitely isn't the best skilled at social interactions, but she tries a whole lot to do so. She isn't as full of herself as she appears to be, because she still has enough objectivity to realize she is wrong and correct it, even though she doesn't say it explicitly. It seems obvious to me she only tries to make friends, even though her behavior isn't friendly, she tries to change, so she wouldn't lose Ruby or Blake (we still haven't seen her interacting with Yang after they teamed up).