Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171201215836/@comment-24032889-20171205061726

XXMintshadeXx wrote: Arkantos95 wrote: Except that's not what she said in this episode. She's using her spite as motivation when she's talking to Blake about why she's doing what she's doing. No, she's not. Her spite is in no way her motivation. She didn't even bring it up until Blake claimed to know Ilia more than Ilia believed she did - the entire time before that, she was talking about the White Fang and justice for the Faunus. You are saying that Ilia didn't bring up spite until Blake said "This isn't you." And that would make spite "What do you know about me? You never knew I wanted you to look at me the way you looked at Adam."

You are equating spite, the desire to hurt someone in revenge for their wrongdoings to you, with Ilia's attraction to Blake. Those two are not the same thing. This may have been because Adam is both spiteful and likes Blake as well. However, Adam and Ilia are both motivated outside of their attaction to Blake (though Adam is partially motivated by that too. I feel he'd go so far as to rape her if he saw the chance).

Ilia is spiteful and is getting revenge for the behaviors she witnessed in the Atlas prep school (among concepts like discrimination in general).