User blog comment:Boss335GT/Weiss's Discrimination against the Faunus + followup + new poll./@comment-918376-20131102012152

I've written extensively on a possible misunderstanding between Weiss and Blake back at the Dust shop, which only worsened matters between the two. People have interpreted Weiss to be talking mainly about the White Fang, and the problem really was the fact that she used White Fang and faunus interchangeably.

I'm surprised that Blake revealed her faunus status primarily because she's been hiding it for so long. She's tired of being mistreated, so she hid her ears ... then just watches as other faunus (i.e. Velvet) get bullied and doesn't do anything besides express her anger, but defends the purpose of a radical, violent pro-Faunus group (she can't be that out-of-the-loop regarding the White Fang's public image). Her actions are defendable (didn't want to get in trouble/expose herself for the first, she agrees with the group's purpose in the latter), they're just slightly hypocritical. She wants to change the (what seems to be) general impression that faunus are violent scum, but she doesn't want to expose herself as one of them herself.