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''‘Your hopes have become my burden. I will find my own liberation...’ ''



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Interpretation 1: Blake refused Adam’s love.

Interpretation 2: Referring to someone’s (or many people) hopes placed on Blake, and she seeks to escape these illusionary chains that bound her. This should happen before Black Trailer. Interpretation 3: Tying in from my RWBY Weiss Theory, I speculate that Adam has a special interest on Weiss’ faction (assuming the mechanical units and Weiss are of the same faction). Blake may be someone who’s strongly affiliated with the faction in the past, and Adam placed his hopes on Blake hoping that she would do the right thing and fulfill his wishes.

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Let’s speculate on his personality and motives based on the Black Trailer.



1)     He does not care much about human lives. It was evident that he doesn’t give two cents if the train crew members lived or die as long as he gets the loot. This may mean that he’s selfish.

2)     He may hate whoever owns the train. One may interpret his tone when speaking of the crew members as sneering and filled with disdain. However, this may simply be his usual way of poking fun at Blake for her moral righteousness. His stubbornness to stay and fight the Spider Guard despite Blake’s urging may be an indication that he has a personal grudge and attachment towards this mysterious faction. However, his actions may be simply due to greed, pride and reputation, and therefore not wanting to leave without his cargo.

3)     He cares for Blake. If Blake was just another ‘pawn’ to him he certainly would not bother saving her, or showed reluctance when Blake left him.

4)     He is a bandit. Regardless of his motives, it is a fact that he and Blake robbed a train of its cargo. 5)     The cargo he and Blake were robbing was very valuable. This can be seen from the sheer number of guards and the final spider unit assigned to protect it.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Blake Theory

<p class="MsoNormal">Chosen Interpretation: Something happened to Blake in the past and it troubled her greatly. She seeks to escape the chains of the past and stepped on a journey. She met Adam, who looks to be interested in her. Adam may wish for Blake to stay with him, but she doesn’t want to because she believes that her salvation won’t be found there. So she chose to leave him and continue alone to find her own liberation.

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<p class="MsoNormal">The chosen interpretation on Black Trailer’s beginning lines should be most concise, and I could reasonably place all my assumptions in while not straying too far off. Below are a few scenarios (I would add one of them under RWBY Weiss Theory later since the scenario ties in both characters) that describe the course of Blake’s past:

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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1level1lfo1">1)     Assuming that Blake has no contact with any other main characters’ factions at all

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd">Possible, but in this case almost no deduction that has the slightest concrete basis could be done. Simply refer to Chosen Interpretation then. The story here on is completely open and pointless to deduce.

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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1level1lfo1">2)     Assuming that Blake has contact with either Ruby or Yang

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd">Makes no difference as compared to 1), since we cannot even begin to guess what happened between them. Refer to Chosen Interpretation.

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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1level1lfo1">3)     Assuming that Blake has contact with the robotics faction.

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd">Now we can make some real assumptions. Still, the basis of this theory is based on another theory and not facts, so it’s safe to say that there’s a high chance that this can be wrong.

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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd">Suppose that Blake once worked under the robotics faction. During this period the robotics faction proved to be ruthless and uncaring for people’s lives as long as it means achieving their objectives. Blake was forced to kill innocent lives and until one day she could not take the sin any longer and escaped. She met Adam, who does not share her moral righteousness about human lives, but was willing to act with her as long as it coincides with his own objectives.

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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd">Adam may or may not have hatred towards Blake’s faction, but in the end it was clear that Blake chose to leave him for either: moral reasons (a flimsy answer that’s most likely incorrect), his love towards her (possible), Adam’s way cannot give the answer she seeks (very possible), or his wish for her to do something only she can do (possible). She continues on her journey in hopes that she’ll be able to find an answer to her guilt, and if she’s lucky, a resolution to her past.

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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd">While one may assume that if she wants to stop this faction, she should work together with her partner Blake, it’s very plausible that all they’ve done so far was robbing resources and supplies. Adam may very well not give two cents about Blake’s hope of stopping the faction, or simply dismiss it as fairy tale. Blake realizes that she cannot continue on like this any longer, for if she did she may never find her desired release. So she left.

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1level1lfo1">4)     Assuming Blake is someone very deeply affiliated with the faction, or even heir to a dark throne.

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd">Same as above. She attempts to escape from her destiny, although this doesn’t really coincide with the lyrics, ‘from shadows, we reclaim our destiny’, although this can mean nothing at all.

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1level1lfo1">5)     Assuming that Weiss and Blake met each other in the past at least once.

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd">I’m breaking it down further into three more scenarios here.

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0level1lfo3">a)     Blake hates the faction and wants to stop it from expanding further. She may or may not be with rebels. She has heard news of Weiss and deduced that assassinating her could the best chance of undermining the faction’s efforts and soil their reputation. She sneaks in to assassinate her but found out that Weiss was completely unlike the enemies she knew. In the end Blake escaped, with the result being a failed assassination and a cut eye for Weiss. Blake finds her conscience deeply troubled and leaves on a soul searching journey.

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0level1lfo3">b)    Adam plans to steal or rob something from the heavily guarded area, where Weiss happened to reside. We may assume that it is the magic vials Weiss usually uses that they trying to obtain; they look to be highly valuable. While they were snatching the cargo they stumbled into Weiss and fought. They may or may not succeed in robbing the cargo, but they managed to wound Weiss in the eye to prevent her from pursuing. It is possible that Adam was the one who cut her, and she dodged blindness by a hair’s breadth. The incident however finally triggered Blake into leaving Adam and she continues on her stalled journey. 

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0level1lfo3">c)      Blake and Weiss were friends, perhaps as early as childhood. Blake was the assigned bodyguard who protects the princess from the shadows. Blake grew jealous of Weiss over time despite their friendship, and during a mock duel her emotions overflowed and she accidentally wounded Weiss in the eye. Blake was horrified by what she had done and ran away. Weiss couldn’t believe her friend’s betrayal, and hid the scar behind makeup as if to pretend it never happened. However, she finally came to a resolution while fighting the Armored Golem and no longer hid the scar. If I have to guess, she would remember the scar now as a reminder of her most beloved friend, and not betrayal.

<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:36.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0level1lfo3"> Out of all the scenarios 5b) holds the biggest credibility, as it fits with almost all the clues.  While everything below 5 may be easily dismisse by a simple, 'Weiss and Blake had never crossed paths before', nothing is certain until the episodes come out, so. =P <ac_metadata title="RWBY Blake Theory"> </ac_metadata>