Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130829103240/@comment-14909251-20140206020811

Andrew S-997 wrote: I never though about Blake as being evil like that, but who knows. Why do people always assume that would have to make her evil? In war and law enforcement the "good" guys kill all the time. Blake having been on the other side of the law would not make her motives any less noble. Many people see abolitionist John Brown as a hero even though he repeatedly engaged in acts of murder and bloodshed. For most people here who likely have relatively sheltered lives, the motivations of bloody revolutionaries is probably hard to fathom. I imagine killing bad people who do bad things to her people is not something with which she would have had much difficulty. You saw how she treated Roman. She exhibited a certain amount of blood lust towards him.

Not to mention that Blake is 17 for heaven's sake! Blake would have been even younger than that when she left the White Fang and about 12 when the group started turning violent. She would have basically been a child soldier. Getting a teenager to kill for such a cause is not nearly as difficult as getting an adult to do the same. When you consider that she had been in the group since she was even younger, then it stands to reason the White Fang had quite the grip on her even before it turned violent. If she was an orphan, as I suspect, then the White Fang would have basically been like her only family.

Of course, the key point to take away from this is that she left. Regardless of what she did, she left because she felt like she could not continue doing it. That makes her fundamentally good. It likely means that she is pursuing the old path of redemption like Kenshin of Rurouni Kenshin or Balsa of Moribito.