Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3146930-20140708014442/@comment-10390252-20140718174347

Zolnir, I think that you've missed an important thing here: Blake had just let slip that she was a (former, possibly) member of a terrorist organisation. She had a lot of reasons to run and vanish, including the fear that her "friends" were currently calling the authorities to hunt her down and arrest her. Until Sun calls her out on not talking to her friends, I strongly suspect that she was planning to go renegade and figure out who is really responsible for the Dust thefts as an outlaw vigilante or something. Even then, I'm not sure she would have gone back if it wasn't so clear that they were looking for her for a reason other than putting her in chains.

FWIW, at the end of Black and White, Weiss rightly calls her out on her fear, saying that she needs to learn to trust them enough to talk to them.

On the other subjects, my call is that Blake is actually mildly racist against humans for moderately good reasons of her own, just as Weiss's racial distrust of Faunus also has a solid basis. (This is only in my head, but I've got the feeling that the black strap on her left arm, which she also had as a kitten, might be where her Concentration Camp ID tattoo is located.) That is why she didn't take the initiative with Ruby and Yang until Ruby surprised her with her genuine interest in her. She just doesn't like humans and I suspect that she never will like them in general, outside of her group of friends.

I actually expect something like that bit in Princess Mononoke where they're in an argument with someone in authority and Blake, in an angry moment snaps something like: "You're wasting your breath, Weiss! These humans could never understand!"

Regarding Velvet? Well, if Blake has absorbed White Fang ideology, I'm sure that, on a subconscious level, she'd despise Velvet's passive victimhood and think she should stand up and fight. She is probably also quite capable of enough selfish cynicism to think that helping her might blow her own cover. It will be interesting to see if 'coming out' in the manner she has to RWBY, Penny and Sun might encourage her to try to help Velvet (or at least encourage Velvet's team-mates to help her).