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SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote:

The most likely timeline for her life is that her father was based in Mistral, then when Sienna took over she stayed as her parents left for their new position in Menagerie

Blake in Volume 2 Episode 2, told Ozpin during a flashback:

''Ozpin: Wonderful. As you know, in order to enroll at my academy, students must first pass a rigorous entrance exam. Most applicants spend years of preparation training at one of the many combat schools around the world. You are one of the few that did not. And you passed the exam with flying colors.''

''Blake: I was raised outside the kingdoms. If you can't fight, you can't survive. ''

So, she either was lying her ass off when she said that - which she had no reason to do - or, she really did grow outside the Kingdoms.

Mistral, is not outside the Kingdoms. Menagerie, on the other hand, is.

And quite in fact, in V4E3, she says this bit outright: Blake: Home, to Menagerie.

Menagerie really is her home. And given it's been years since she saw her parents by the time she went there, I seriously doubt it was just a sudden decision to move there after Ghira stepped down while Blake decided to remain with the WF. Counter-Counterpoint!! As we saw via Anima there are plenty of cities/villages outside of the Kingdom's eye that can go relatively unnoticed, supported by the WOR. By "Outside the Kingdom's" she could have refered to one of the numerous villages not under a kingdom's watch, as the Academy's are all literaly in the actual kingdom's center. She did say "If you can't fight, you can't survive." However Menagerie's only place to fight is in the deserts, which she would have no reason for going in since the areas that were hospitable had already been settled in, i.e., Kuo Kuana was already established. In between the Kingdom's makes more sense, as the WOR said that Villages rise up and fall very quickly due to the ever growing threat of the Grimm, so her having to regularly fight would make more sense there.

As for her referring to Menagerie as home, it could be more she considers where he family is to be home, and knew they would be there from when they stepped down.