Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130810030606/@comment-10390252-20140705140714

MetallicArcher wrote: Besides, child soldiers is something we should have been expecting. Blake looked like she already was 17 in the Black Trailer but think about the fact the White Fang turned to violence 5 years before the beggining of the series: 17 - 5 = 12. For Blake to fight like she fought in the trailer they likely started training her as soon as they turned to violence. Whilst the child soldier thing should not be surprising, given that Blake was evidently fighitng for some years as a mid-teen, I also suspect that there is probably a cultural difference on Remnant. Remember that the Grimm evidently very nearly drove humanity (and, likely, the Faunus) into extinction. In such a scenario, any person old enough to hold a weapon would have been drafted and, yes, that includes 10-18 year olds.