Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.248.240.148-20170908201845/@comment-34724302-20180320213909

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Arkantos95 wrote:

Raven at least did what she did to preserve the tribe, Ilia just did it because she thought it was the right thing to do. Actually, she did it because "SENPAI DIDN'T NOTICE ME >:C". Her "Blake, I love you" revelation undermines her character like that, the reason she's doing what she's doing being because Blake "only cared about Adam".

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@Masma: Her signs of "doubt and regret" only happen when the writers demand it, and disappear when the writers forget they're even there.

She seemed to have second thoughts about the WF, yet 1-2 eps later she's yelling at Ghira and calling him an idiot for "trying to convince them to help humans" (which is false, since Haven has Faunus students). She seemed to regret the idea of killing Blake's parents, yet 1-2 eps later she's already perfectly willing to do it with no remorse.

And again, you're ignoring the damn point: The gravity of their actions, on-screen and off-screen, is not what matters here, what matters is how easily they are forgiven by everyone despite their gravity.

What Ilia did, regardless of how it compares to what Raven's been doing since before she was even born, was not the sort of thing a person would dismiss as "Eh, I forgive you, no big deal". Yet it was dismissed like that anyway. We should expect Raven to end up in a similar way. Ilia had at least these moment of showing doubts and regrets while Raven didn't and the fact that Blake and her parents easely forgave Ilia doesn't mean that Qrow and all the members of Team RWBY and JNR would have done the same if they knew Ilia and her past nor that means that Taiyang will easely forgive Raven for sacrificing her own's daughter and Ruby's lives to order to save her skin.