Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3146930-20140708014442/@comment-24994749-20140719031429

Ok, so I'm going to reply here one more time and then leave for good because this is making me angry and I took a vow to do my best to prevent my anger or handle it properly if it surfaces.

- When Blake left the White Fang she left her family, remember she was "practically born into it", also, they were likely the only place where she was treated like a person and not a "lesser being"; when they were pacific they gave her hope that she was "making a difference", when they went violent, they gave her the ability, the weapons and the strength to reclaim the things humans took from the faunus.

- I have explained once and over again why pushing everyone away was the safest method to ensure managing to go through Beacon without being discovered. Since that doesn't seem enough to convince you she isn't doing it because she enjoys being alone, let me ask you this:

Do her face and voice when she says goodbye to Adam at the end of the Black Trailer, her face when she sees Weiss take a step back in horror when she slipped, her tears when she stops running and looks up to the statue in front of Beacon, her face when Sun asks her if she has discussed her past with her friends or her tears when Weiss tells her it doesn't matter what she did in the past, the lyrics of "Wings" hit you like that Blake is a someone who enjoys isolating herself and wandering on her own?

- Ok, let me talk to you about why I don't feel Weiss has improved or shown a wish to improve half as much as Blake.

So, lets assume the White Trailer is about her overcoming some personal struggle. I applaud her, I have done it several times in my life, I know how hard it is.

Her father was never there for her or was abusive in some form, she was under the constant fear of being murdered. Terrible, my father didn't speak to me during the first 12 years of my life, my cousin tried to murder me, my mother has systematically let out her job frustrations out on me since I have had memory.

Her rebellious attitude to her family. Oh! She wears her ponytail to the side, how terrible! Shame she then proceeds to have the family logo plasted in the back of her combat uniform, use all of the SDC products, smash her status as the heiress of the company in everyone's faces and have servants carry her luggage when all the other students are shown carrying it one their own.

Her first interaction with Ruby: the girl fell over a bunch of unstable and volatile material, instead of asking if she is ok, Weiss yells at her, systematically verbally attacks her questioning her competence and right to be at Beacon despite the fact it had been a clear accident, her belongings had not been damaged and really, in any case, if the content of the luggage was so dangerous, she should have worried about Ruby's health not some property damage.

Then, she verbally attacks Ruby once more, this time in front of Yang. She couldn't know Yang and Ruby were sisters, so she basically proceeded to humiliate her in front of a random stranger and question her capability to handle ammunition despite Ruby, by all the circumstantial evidence of the moment, being just like her a huntress in training who has been accepted into a top class academy.

Then she pretends to criticize the fact that she was not made team leader when:

- there was one rule during the initiation, one, the first person they made eye contact with was to be their partner and she not solely deliberately attempted to break that rule but was to do it based on a conflict with Ruby she had initiated and Ruby had never done nothing but try to make amends over.

- when she saves Ruby from the Death stalker, she criticizes everything about the girl to promise then that she will try to be nicer, let's see how she was nicer?

When they are fighting the Nevermore, Ruby not solely comes up with a plan, but gives herself the most dangerous part of it. What does Weiss do? She criticizes the plan seconds before Ruby makes her extremely dangerous move without proposing any better alternative.

But she thought she deserved to be leader and went bitch mode on Ruby once more when she was not assigned leader and blames it on Ruby as if Ruby had named herself leader rather than being someone else's decision based on their performances during the initiation.

Oh, but she promised Ruby that she would be the best team mate ever after Porch told her to aspire to be the better person she could be, not a leader. I'm going to summarise that moment with a sentence from a review about that episode I read some time ago:

"She hasn't stopped being competitive, she just has changed what she is competing for."

Being the best person you can be ins't about surpassing someone else in the same task, but doing best than you have ever done. She basically changed being better than Ruby for being better than Yang and Blake.

Then, when Ruby decides that they are going to find Blake and let her explain herself, she systematically tries to convince them to go give her in to the police.

When Blake finally reunited the courage to try to explain herself, she cuts her short. Sure, she had the best intentions in mind, to tell her it didn't matter and they were a team and that Blake should go to them when bad things happen. Thing is, if Blake had not run away, Weiss wouldn't be accepting her.

Oh! And in Rooster Teeth's website, the Black and Yellow trailer are put under the Volume 1 section (unlike the Red and White trailer that are classified as special videos), you can check it.

Finally Blake has admitted and acted twice over the White Fang doing things the wrong way:

- the first time when she abandoned them and chose to take a career path that would allow to compensate for her wrong doings. She could have just run away and try to live a peaceful life away from all dangers, instead, she took several risks to be able to become a huntress: form faking an identity, throwing herself to a forest full of Grimm and the constant risk of, of course, being found out and being arrested.

- two at the docks, she actively interrupted the dust robbery. she could have just stayed there and leave herself be with the confirmation that the White Fang had completely lost their way, instead she jumped in, targeted the leader of the operation, exposed her cover to get answers (which means that if someone in the White Fang has been looking for her to make her pay for her treason, they now knew where she is), and, of course, let's not forget that the one that is being robbed is the SDC who she has state dot have several reasons to dislike.

Sure, when Weiss calls put their hate in humanity, Blake calls them misguided. But Blake has an inner understanding of the White Fang's history Weiss does not. She knows they went violent because the new leader lead them down that road, she was there when they were "pushed around" during the time they tried to do things pacifically. Basically, she knows most of the faunus supporting the White Fang ain't inherently bad but are done with being treated like shit and have a person who has promised them that if they do things on a violent way, things will get better, with the antecedent of peaceful protests failing.

Weiss? Yes, she accepted Blake based on the fact she is no longer linked to the White Fang, but she still has to show any initiative to admit the SDC are not innocent victims and have committed their fair share of crimes.

You know what, the only thing I have left to tell you, before I leave this topic alone is that I sincerely hope that you never:

- attend a cultural or artistic event of a subject you are actually educated on and have studied to perform yourself and get looked down by the security guard because your clothes denote you belong to a socio-economic group lower than the one that normally attends that kind of event, even if they only attend it to show around and have no understanding or enjoyment of the performance they are witnessing and that you are actually wearing your newest most formal clothes that you have only worn once before.

- a boss, teacher or whatever puts down and grades lower your works than the works of the rest of your mates despite it being just as good based on things like your gender.

- you have to pretend to come from an upper socio-economic level than what you really are so the teacher will dedicate time to you in class.

- your social circles make disrespect your religious choices and, rather than try to inform themselves or allow you to explain to them your believes to correct their wrong perceptions, they laugh it off and change the subject.

- someone looks down on you because they notice you are speaking their language with a foreign accent.

But, you know, at the same time, I can't help but feel that, if you went through at least one of the above, at least once, you would get a so much better view of this "reality" of ours you talk about.