Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131101010653/@comment-14909251-20131103045542

Zolnir wrote: So... not paying my fares makes me a possible scum who wants to wipe humanity off the world's surface?

People, we have just met our real life Weiss Schnee.

Weiss is alike to Cardin in the fact that they're both discriminatory. Cardin bullied Velvet for the heck of it, and that she happened to be Faunu was just an added bonus. Weiss assumed that the Faunu Sun was going to turn White Fang anyway, even though his greatest offense she saw was... not paying his fares and throwing a banana peel at a cop. And mind you, the cop threw a goddamn rock at him. He could've been seriously hurt.

It isn't about him not paying fares. He enjoyed antagonizing the authorities and having them chase him until he gives them the slip. A person acting like that has probably committed his fair share of crimes. That introduction was all about cementing this guy as an outlaw. Granted, he is very much intended as a lovable outlaw for the viewers, but he is an outlaw all the same. Presuming that someone of that nature would join up with a group of his people fighting against the existing authorities is not some obscene leap of logic.

Oh, and Weiss stated quite clearly that she doesn't particularly trust the Faunus. She hides it well, but the moment someone brings up the topic she's like a exploded water pipe that wouldn't stop gushing. Blake had clearly wanted to end the talk when she tried diverting the topic, but Weiss of course, could not keep her opinions to herself (while completely not realizing Blake was about to explode beside her - twice, if you count Penny's encounter - talk about insensitivity).

I'm not saying only Weiss is wrong, you know, I'm saying that they're both wrong. Blake couldn't get over the fact that her once-group was being badmouthed as criminally insane, psychopathic, and well, good god Weiss you seriously know how to piss people off without even using swear words. And then when Weiss went 'rapscallion' 'filthy Faunu' and generally tries to be creative at insulting Sun -

You know actually, now that I've written it out, I believe Weiss is at the bigger wrong here. Like, wow. No wonder Blake's fuse exploded. I would find it weird if Blake had not defended Sun there... Good god, Weiss. Just the thought of your insults hurts like needles. Glad you brought up "insensitivity" as you really need to establish perspective here. All indications are that Weiss is merely living in the middle of the war zone and is not a participant in the conflict. Blake was very much part of the conflict. Weiss is the true victim and innocent in this scenario as Blake stopped being a victim when she joined up with the White Fang. In all this you have to keep in mind that, while Weiss has no clue about Blake's true identity due to Blake keeping it concealed, Blake knows full well who Weiss is and probably has a decent idea of what she has experienced. Not only that, it is quite likely that Blake, for a time at least, was accepting and perhaps even involved in some of the violent actions against her family and their company beyond just that train robbery.

All the same, Blake defends the group that has been actively killing off Weiss' family and friends. Not only that, Blake seems to acknowledge that the White Fang has become genocidal in its ambitions yet merely describes that as being "very misguided" and nothing more. Blake was minimizing such increasing radicalism to a person she knew had completely legitimate reason to fear being murdered by them and Blake had every reason to believe Weiss had done nothing to deserve living with that kind of fear. You want to talk about being "insensitive" then you should talk about how insensitive it is to say to a girl caught up in a conflict merely because she was born into a family that the group with genocidal ambitions actively trying to kill the people she loves is merely "misguided" in their actions. Blake cannot fall back on merely being ignorant of her situation.