Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-70.164.250.74-20180315191229/@comment-25936766-20180316171440

2001:8A0:D21E:E301:BD7C:6E0F:6DFE:2D14 wrote:

1) For example, when Blake first meets Sun, she tells him her story, even though she's uber reserved and sharing that (especially to a complete stranger) is not in her nature.

2) This also happens in V4, when Sun gets on a boat to follow Blake without her knowledge. This is awful writing of both Blake and Sun's characters. Blake: because she has an obsessed ex-boyfriend, so the fact that Sun is willing to follow her without respecting her wanting boundaries should be a red flag to everyone, but especially to someone with her past.

3) It's also problematic for Sun as a character, since he got on a boat to follow this chick he barely knows without even knowing what she was going to do or even for how long she was going to be far away.

4) This is awful characterization because Sun is supposed to be a character on his own therefore have friends, goals and, maybe, family on his own, yet none of those matter more or even as much as that one chick he barely knows. 1) Except you missed a few obvious facts in Vol.1: First, Blake was pretending to be a Human. Second, her story is basically that she was a member of a terrorist anti-human organization, which in itself means she was a Faunus.

The very reason she ran away like she did was out of fear, after revealing that she was a Faunus, and an Ex-WF member. She grew up in the WF, she at least thought that if a Human found out she would be stoned or something. That's why she was so reserved back then.

Sun, meanwhile, was a Faunus. Not only would he not give a damn if Blake was also a Faunus, a Faunus would be far more tolerant of an Ex-WF than a Human would be. Hence why Blake was more willing to share her story with him.

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2) ...........Ok, how is this awful writing on Blake's part? All you talk about is Sun stalking Blake across a country without showing much respect for her privacy (and doing it while hidden with a cloak and hood, just to make it more creepy).

All that, is bad writing on Sun's part. It has nothing to do with Blake's characterization.

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3) Saying "barely knows" is quite the hyperbole. Their relationship was closer than Blake's own relationship with her own team back in Vol.1-3, they've been friends long enough to know each other in terms of character and backstory (at least, Blake's).

It is true that he didn't know why she ran away (granted, no one else knew either) or where she was going, though. He is quite single-minded.

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4) This is mostly true....since his very first appearance, Sun has been to Blake what Pyrrha was to Jaune: A secondary character who didn't matter that much to the overall plot and that, while being a close friend, their personality was 95% based around being their Love Interest.

The only thing difference is that he's still alive.

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Now, Black Sun is not a disaster. It might not be the most stellarly-written love story ever, but it is one of the better built ships in this show's canon, with multiple scenes supporting it since Sun first appeared.

The problem is that Vol.4 turned Sun into a creepy stalkering moron, though he kind of recovered from that in Vol.5.