Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160225225013/@comment-5055509-20160308023333

MetallicArcher wrote: I didn't feel there was any "NOW I'M GONNA RISK MY LIFE FOR HER I INSTANTLY LOVE HER!".

As I said, everything Sun did for Blake in V1 was in the spirit of "I see you have a problem and I'm not going to ignore it if I can help". Basically, not being an asshole.

Sun has the same combat level of Blake. He overpowered the mooks and neither of them could have expected Roman to be THAT good as a fighter given he is just a high profile rober.

It was quite obvious from the start that they were an intended pairing but it wasn't until V2 (which has a time skip of at least a week with V1) that Sun started talking about Blake as if she was made of unicorn and rainbows. And not until V3 (which has a time skip of at least another week with the end of V2) for Blake to show she reciprocated.

And I'm sorry but I disagree on Bumbleby.

Yang and Blake's relationship in V1 was non existant. They never had a proper dialogue and they were made partners by just as much chance and Ruby and Weiss.

V2, they had that one scene where Yang talked about her mum, which again only came after the team as a group failed to aproach Blake, then Sun failed and asked the team how Blake was doing. Then there was the WBY bonding scene.

V3 had... Yang being surprised and hurt Blake has issues with people she is close with suddenly doing something violent (after almost a year of knowing each other and the V2 scene WBY scene Blake literally enounced her history with that). Yang seeing Blake getting hurt and then being hurt that the team is disbanded. I literally can't recall anything remotely specific to them two beyond that.

All that, with Bumbleby having the advantage over BlackSun that Blake and Yang literally lived together for almost a year. RWY didn't notice Blake was a faunus after a semester of living together.

Monochrome has had better development than Bumbleby. And I'm a hardcore WhiteRose shipper. I'm sorry, maybe it's just too obvious for me. And Monochrome has more development? Fuck outta here, not even remotely. Also, it was obvious to me that Sun liked Blake from the get-go. Thing is, the reason that Arkos was most people's favorite ship is because it was given the most development and was obviously intended to be canon (heheheh... poor shippers). Meanwhile, other ships cropped up that people yes shipped, but not nearly as seriously (I mean that's not UNIVERSALLY true...) so at this point not many ships make too much sense IMO. I ship bumbleby with the knowledge that if anything, there has got to be more development, same could be said for BlackSun, which hasn't done much in the way of that either (they danced together, whoop de doo. He winked at her and she blushed, IMPORTANT!).

No matter what happens, I don't expect much, because tbh, romance hasn't really been touched a whole lot in this series beyond Arkos, but if RT wants to shove it down my throat then I'm gonna object.