Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-30530552-20170910213424

I mean, it might've also been an intentional visual/story choice by CRWBY.

Save for the mask, I (and many other people) found it very hard to see her in the trees when she was first discovered. Having the mask there makes it less confusing for viewers to see what the issue was than just having it be all black. Of course, that goes against the whole point of stealth, so here's the other choice.

As we've seen so far, a White Fang member is immediately identifiable if they're wearing a Grimm mask, and as we've seen so far, Grimm (and by extension WF members) have not shown to have any other color of masks, both stylistically ("if Grimm don't have it that way, then we shouldn't either," which I find stupid) and as a sign of their allegiance. Having them wear a black mask for the option of pure stealth would've made it more confusing, because anything else that signals a WF mask would immediately be identifiable, such as the red markings. Personally I don't question it because had that Scroll throw not happened, Ilia probably would've gone undiscovered. Hell, if they started lookign her way she could just take off the mask. It's not that hard.

Plus, they probably just wanted to have that "Rule of Cool" face reveal the next episode too.