Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28171999-20190208002539/@comment-37471367-20190225022459

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: Granaatti wrote: 1: The Kingdom that is said to be the most racist having zero problem with Blake. (You better kick her out of shop/hotel/bar etc at least once) As I proposed in another thread, best way to do this is to have Blake's ass get put in the slammer upon arrival or shortly after arrival. Seriously, she was a member of the White Fang and at a bare minimum committed a number of serious property crimes. High time she starts getting recognized for the significant individual she is established as being. Other than changing their mind about killing him off, this is the only real way they cane make up for the bullshit with Adam. Blake gets arrested and is forced into a prison camp or work release or something. This would allow us to explore some stuff with the White Fang and Faunus mistreatment that we never got to explore with Adam, who clearly had a very interesting and tragic backstory we will apparently never know except through more exposition. I would also echo objections to making Bumblebee canon and killing Cinder.

Yeah, I have to agree with the others. I sense possible bias against Blake and in favor of Adam here. Arrest her for what exactly? The most they have is stealing an Atlesian ship, except they don’t even know about the events back in Argus. What proof do they have that it was stolen? And why would Ironwood, the commander of Atlesian forces let his allies get detained? That makes zero sense. And don’t give me the excuse that he doesn’t think Manta 5-1’s arrival is irrelevant to him, or he’s not going to initially be involved. They know Weiss Schnee is coming. Ironwood would most likely want to greet her personally.

You say that Blake has committed crimes on behalf of the WF, and you claim that Atlas somehow knows about this. How? How do they know? If Blake was such a high profile individual/criminal, then how come she was not arrested much earlier in the story? In fact, how come NO ONE, namely Weiss, Ozpin, and/or Ironwood recognized this so called high profile person that is fighting in the International Vytal Festival live throughout the WORLD. Being daughter of a Chieftain or former WF leader doesn’t automatically make her a public figure, nor does it mean that she has no reason to not actively pursue equal rights (Looking at the people claiming she’s spoiled).

Vale is not a target of the WF? Dust robberies, train hijacking, stealing military hardware, Grimm attacks, and the FALL OF BEACON all say otherwise. And Blake was involved at with WF activity in Vale courtesy of the Black Trailer.

As for no evidence:

Unprovoked ambush of WF convoy in Adam trailer. Notice how the humans are bent on killing.

Discussion of Faunus War in V1, which if you pay attention, is said by Oobleck to have effects at present. Wars are not trivial matters.

Blake stills exposition. I highly doubt Blake is being dishonest.

Menagerie in of itself.

Illia’s story of how her cameo helped her evade discrimination.

Ozma flashback clearly showing Faunus caged for no legit reason.

Cordo’s refusal to allow anyone else to accompany Weiss while clearly showing predjudice at Blake while saying so.

Adam’s brand. Branding him as if he was cattle. If that’s not evidence of serious discrimination and prejudice, not to mention Jacques’ rotten SDC..... A picture (In this case an image) is worth a thousand words. Why have more backstory (Because we have a LOT of that already) when just one image does the job?

To be blunt, it should be none of my concern if others can’t put two and two together. But I would appreciate a well done scene showing how bad it is to shut naysayers up, if not for good story and entertainment.

And I highly doubt Ironwood cares about political optics in protecting Blake. Why? Sends fleet to Vale’s doorstep. Jacques commented that it was unusual that his rank was not stripped. Dust Embargo in spite of the obvious backlash, same for closing borders. The guy is the CiC of the military and has two seats on the Atlesian council (“I AM the council.”). He’s not going to care.

And no, it was not snatched away. Just because he’s dead doesn’t mean we won’t see more. We have other ways of exploring that, such as flashbacks. And truth be told, if you thought Adam had any potential relevance to the plot besides Yang and Blake by that point, then I’m honestly not sure where that’s coming from. We don’t absolutely need him to show Faunus discrimination.