User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: The motivation of a Huntress/@comment-24.31.13.227-20141004235153/@comment-9090085-20141005083456

Blake is self-centered in the sense that she feels she's the only one who can make a difference; like she said in Burning the Candle: "I'm the only one who can do this!" This is even more of a problem as she doesn't have plan to achieve her lofty goals; unlike, say, Oobleck.

Oobleck wants to protect, well, everyone; he plans to do this by studying past mistakes and teaching what he's learned to as many people as possible so they do not make the same mistakes. Blake doesn't really have a plan beyond beat down the enemy in sight.

And that also ties into her "idealism": When she learned Roman was working with the White Fang, she focused her efforts on taking him out, perhaps under the assumption that he's a "corrupting influence" on the WF. She doesn't consider the possibility that the WF has corruption that may go all the way to the top. We, the audience, know Roman's essentially a "middleman" between Cinder's group and the WF, and that while taking him out might slow down the "operation", that won't stop it.

Thus, Blake is an idealist in that she still thinks of the WF as misguided, a generally good organization that is being manipulated; she doesn't want to believe that the organization as a whole may have gone past the point of no return.

Or something like that; I'm kind of new at this "analysis" thing.