Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140725003808/@comment-14909251-20140731014234

Simple answer, Tukson operates a book store that serves as a front for the White Fang. Given his Faunus traits are easily disguised he is an ideal candidate to operate an innocuous building for White Fang members where they can hide out, receive medical treatment, and perform other such duties as might be necessary in a pinch. Blake knows him through the White Fang and her interest in books neatly coincides with his so she spends a lot of time around him. They find out he is dead and the White Fang are implicated, thus prompting Blake to be all curled up in a ball in her bed because it was someone she liked and he was killed for trying to leave the group like she did. Prompt the "our enemies" rant as she is even more disillusioned with them over the killing.

On the matter of Blake not being targeted, I will reiterate what I said in another thread that this is probably not a White Fang thing. Cinder gave the task to Roman and it was Mercury and Emerald who decided to take him out. To me that suggests this is more about Cinder trying to keep the White Fang members in line. I imagine many in the White Fang would want to defect over the arrangement with Roman and Cinder. What happened to Tukson is an example of how they keep that from happening. Roman "handling it" probably meant he was trying to get Tukson reassured about this new partnership.

Were it a White Fang thing I seriously doubt Blake would still be hanging around Vale. She can become a huntress elsewhere. Hiding from them in Vale when their only interest would be persuading you to come back is not the same as hiding from them in Vale because they will kill her if she is found. The former is a reasonable risk and the latter is just plain stupid. Since she left before the alliance was formed, at least openly to the rank-and-file, there is no reason to make an example of her.