Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140725003808/@comment-79.97.93.179-20140730001425

Having a lonely childhood is a very different thing from being subject to hatred and racism from practically everyone you meet your entire life, and Blake wasn't the one who started the argument, nor was she the one who drove Weiss away from the group - quite the opposite happened. And why would she have looked for Weiss's side of the story? From her perspective Weiss literally just started insulting her former friends and an entire species out of the blue, she had every right to argue over that.

Oh, come on, Blake didn't "turn sympathy around" or anything of the sort. Weiss was being aggressive, and still insulting the faunus, AND calling for Blake's arrest after that point, how is someone meant to feel sympathy for her? Ruby actually did, by the way. And no, Blake didn't react overly to the dust robbery or anything like that, but she knows that side of the White Fang is wrong. It's why she left. Nobody blamed Weiss for making Blake run off (which she did), they tolerated her all throughout (despite the aforementioned whining about calling the police) and even brought her to look. Yang even dropped the argument as a whole with the "maybe she is, maybe she isn't" line, because she recognized that their friend being missing was more important than any of this stuff right now, and acted accordingly.

And as far as Blake knew she was stealing dust from a company that openly, blatantly mistreats faunus-- not just White Fang, but faunus in general. She had no way of knowing it was affecting Weiss's family life, while I'm sure Weiss knows fully well that the way her family treats faunus is outright wrong - yet she still mistrusts an entire species. She wasn't pushed aside, but there were more important things to worry about - a missing teammate, for one. Weiss was still there and still complaining, Blake was still missing and they had no idea if she was ok or not. Of course they focused on her.