Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4403232-20140411230237/@comment-14909251-20140607071023

DiegoAnime3000 wrote:

Personally, I believe that since she's a faunus, there could be some sort of conflict between Velvet and her team since one of them could easily be a racist and reject Velvet right away, hell it could be even her own partner. Ideally, I would want her team to be cold to her. We have seen the bullying mistreatment of Cardin, the justifiably wary yet still half-hearted distrust of Weiss, and there has been some hint of the more brutal abusive actions towards the Faunus. However, one thing we have not seen is the simple disapproving regard and grudging acceptance that one would expect to be more the norm. Seeing her team accept her in their team simply because they need to and because she is capable, yet not wanting to be "pals" because she is a Faunus would be an interesting dynamic to explore. That is, they are civil and respectful, but not friendly or considerate towards her.

Of course, eventually they would move towards having some sort of "breakthrough" where they begin to see or at least try to see Velvet as a friend, rather than just a teammate. A thought would be like if Velvet were being mistreated and someone like Pyrrha stood up for her or, hell, Weiss just to make it extra clear that Velvet's teammates are being bigoted jerks. Maybe the person even lectures them about neglecting a member of their own team to drive the point home. Suddenly they're ashamed that they cannot stand up for their teammate, while someone who barely knows her can treat her like she is no different from any other person.