Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-121.222.136.235-20140704221339/@comment-14909251-20140707050822

Shadow at Morning wrote: They're political revolutionaries, not cultural imperialists. Torchwick seems to be if not a major, then certainly a significant underworld powerbroker in an area where the Fang is interested in expanding operations. He provides local underworld intelligence, maybe even picking out targets, and gets them in touch with his contacts as well as possible sympathizers. The White Fang, by all indications, simply seeks equal rights for Faunus, and may be pragmatic enough to accept his aid, even if he is not particularly ideologically aligned with them. If he proves a problem, well, that's where agents like Adam come in. But it's not Torchwick's own merits that have let him in this far, it's the power of his patron, who almost certainly has deep ties into the White Fang, whether by outright alliance, manipulation, or blackmail. It ultimately doesn't matter what the rank and file think of him, nor he of them. Torchwick brings the leadership what they want, and everyone's happy. And when he delivers the mech, well, he's just delivered something that's probably a gamechanger for Fang operations, at least in Vale and the surrounding, if not through all of Vytal, and maybe even the whole world. That buys him a lot of credibility. I think it is clear that Cinder's group was the one playing matchmaker between Torchwick and the White Fang. My thinking is that they have someone inside the White Fang, maybe even at the top level, who is an associate of theirs. That person advocates on their behalf and helps smooth over the idea of working with Torchwick. Of course, they could have several people on the inside.