Talk:Blake Belladonna/History/@comment-73.140.92.88-20161111231822

Ok, confession / unpopular opinion time.

I think I've lost respect for Blake.

It has nothing to do with her relationship with Adam, but more how she's been treating her friends. I understand her trauma and where she's coming from because I've also been in abusive relationships. But what Blake has been doing at the end of the third season and now in this last episode, is passing emotional abuse on to her friends (Yang, Sun, etc). I feel bad for her, I really do, because I know what she's going through. And I understand all too well the inclination to hide from those who wish to support you, but she's gone farther and is actively pushing them away.

I'm probably coloring this with my own experience, so you can take this with a grain of salt, but it really angered me that she would slap Sun for coming to help her. I view Sun and Blake as good friends, not love interests, but - he followed her to help her. She presumably knows what it is like to be physically abused (Adam), but when a friend tries to help her, the first thing she does is slap them? Across the face? There is no reason and no excuse for that. She just shamed him for doing what a friend does, and repeated the legacy of abuse that she suffered.

Again, I know my point of view here will be unpopular, but as someone who has experienced abuse, I feel bad for Blake, but with her behaving like this is a shame because I really liked her character back in volume 1. I want to continue to like her, but I can't because of her recent behavior. Instead I just want to send her to a good therapist so she can work out her issues in healthy ways, instead of passing on her pain to other people.