User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E8 - Blake Sucks - Impressions/Recap/@comment-34633327-20171207052944/@comment-25936766-20171207140759

1) Regarding Night Faunus, copypasting from my response to Chish:

......................WHY THE HELL ARE THERE FREAKING NOCTURNAL FAUNUS?!

What, do Owl Faunus just sleep all day and are awake all night? 'How? How does having Owl eyes or feathers or whatever the hell they have, make a Faunus nocturnal?!'

It makes no sense. Faunus have a trait, but otherwise are just like Humans. Humans are not nocturnal creatures. So why would Faunus (potentially) be nocturnal?

Or is there some trait that would make them nocturnal? If so, I'd like to hear what it is.

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2) Regarding Blake telling Sun, also copypasted:

Sun: You okay?

Blake: ''Yeah, I’ll meet you there. I need to take care of something first.''

That is all they said to each other. How the hell was I supposed to know that this single line = "I'm gonna talk to Ilia, come with me for if I need help"? Especially when this is Sun we're talking about, and Blake we're talking about.

If they had shown Blake twinking at him while she told that to Sun, then I would believe you. But RT couldn't bother with such a simple thing, and so all I'm left is Blake telling Sun that she's gonna take care of something first.

At most, I would believe that Sun knew it was bull and followed her, but then he would've attacked earlier, knowing him, and that's not what happened.

Seriously, if that was all planned, if she did tell Sun so he'd be there for her, a twink would've made it more clear. It's not like Ilia can see from those trees if Blake twinked at Sun.

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3) "Really man? She just outlined she doesn't like hurting people, that she is only doing this because it gets results."

Considering the way she talks, and has talked, about Humans, and the way she reduces them to "THOSE WHO HATE FAUNUS, AND THOSE WHO DO NOTHING", yeah, I'm calling Bull there.

She may not like hurting people. But she doesn't seem to mind it at all either, rationalizing it as "for the greater good", "for the Faunus Master Race", "a necesary sacrifice".

Even if it includes shipping Blake back to Adam and killing her family, in sharp contrast with her reaction to the very idea when Corsac told her.

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4) They both want to put Humans in their place, they just change the words. They both want to "punish humans", they just change the words.

As for Adam's "rationality", I'm not saying he's rational, I'm saying he's comparatively more rational than Ilia. Ilia just wants to whip every human until they drop or shut up. Adam wants the same, at least.

But Adam is willing to work with humans if it will help him achieve his goals. Ilia just hates humans. I wonder if she even knows about Hazel or Cinder.

But overall, Adam, the genocidal racist, IS WILLING TO MAKE EXCEPTIONS IF IT WILL HELP HIM ACCOMPLISH HIS GOALS. Ilia, doesn't seem like it.

And besides, Faunus are superior to Humans and even in lesser numbers can kick their asses. How do I know that? 3 words:' FAUNUS. RIGHTS. REVOLUTION.' And that was long before the show's story begins.

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5)  "Were you even paying attention to the context of the scene? Blake says she knew this wasn't Ilia. Ilia said she didn't really know anything about her. She then revealed she had loved Blake. This wasn't supposed to be her reasoning for the thing, she was using it as an example as to how Blake doesn't really know her" 

Was it that? Was it just that? The way it's revealed makes it seem like at least part of her motivation for what she was doing, was emotional jealousy, or betrayal as Phantom put it.

And what Ilia was doing IN THAT ENTIRE SCENE was still a complete 180º from how she reacted to even the idea of killing Blake's parents.

And of course, like I've said before, Ilia revealing she's gay for Blake serves no purpose, it's unnecesary. If it was kept as a Romantic Friendship, nothing would be lost, nothing would've changed. Only that it doesn't undermine her character.

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6) I do agree with you on 1 thing: Ghira's method is freaking dumb.

They are just civilians who literally live there because they don't want to fight. I doubt most of them even know how to fight properly.

Trying to send them to help protect Haven against trained, efficient terrorists with decent equipment and tech is just suicide. They fail in quantity and quality. Ghira's plan at best would make all of Menagerie a bunch of martyrs.