Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24934890-20181008004211/@comment-4010415-20181012142019

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: 1. Everytime I see people saying "it's obvious that Yang has feelings for Blake!", I cannot do anything but cringe, at best. Because none of those "hints" are obvious, or even subtle. They see it only because they have Gay Googles sticked to their face and refuse to take it off.

2. With Sun, it's perfectly obvious.

3. And even with Ilia, even when I still feel every one of her interactions with Blake prior to the reveal comes off more as close friendship than actual romantic interest, said interactions show better hints than pretty much every interaction between Blake and Yang does, if they do at all.

4. Unless Yang really did forgive Blake for all of that just because Weiss told her to, nevermind how it was part of what made Yang fall into a depression for months.

5. That scene still irritates me for that....for someone like Yang, what Blake did was not and should not be something one can simply dismiss and forgive just like that. 1. Indeed, it's so far on the downlow that you can't even really notice, and the only reason the shippers noticed is because they've been shipping it since before Volume 1 Episode 1 even came out. The songs do a better job of hinting at it (setting aside Bmblb, which screams it).

..... Though, to be honest, Jeff's songs do a better job of telling us things than a lot of Miles and Kerry's writing, so... eh...

2. Yeah, lmao, it's been obvious since Volume fricking 1, not including the wink he did when they first met. Either he was trying really hard to make a new friend or he had crush at first sight.

3. I'll be honest, in Volume 4, I actually had tinglings of "Does Ilia love Blake?" but ignored them, going "Nah, probably not."

4. Well... considering Miles and Kerry tell Jeff enough about the story, including from future Volumes, for him to be able to write songs about the show, he has more insight on the show than we do, and... All That Matters really seems to say that, yes, Yang does forgive Blake. However, it also seems to say that Yang knows it might be a mistake to forgive her.

"Never thought that you would stay forever Never asked you to commit your life But I can tell you in my heart I never Thought you'd up and leave me Without a trace to lead me And now you're standing here With that look in your eyes The look that makes me hope I'll just believe your lies"

Basically, Yang never thought Blake would stay forever, but she also didn't think Blake would abandon them again. Now that Blake is actually standing right in front of her, just looking at her makes Yang feel like she really wants to believe in Blake, even if Blake just tells her lies. Honestly, love does make people become absolute idiots like that...

"Thought that I could pull you from the shadows Maybe help you find your wings and fly But you're a path the longer that I travel The more I'm just defeated My past mistakes repeated I'll risk it once again to have you near my side Another chance to let you just destroy my pride"

^ Again, "I forgive you, but I also recognize that doing so is probably a huge mistake." She recognizes that, going down this path, she might get abandoned again and again, she might make the same mistake over and over, but for some stupid reason, she'll risk that just to have Blake there with her again. She knows that she's giving Blake another chance to just screw her over and hurt her.

So, yeah, if Jeff's insight on things in the show that we don't know about yet had an influence on this song, that might be what's going on.

Which brings me to...

5. Hell yeah, Yang, you need to respect yourself more than that and hold Blake accountable! At the very least, she should've told Weiss why she was leaving and asked Weiss to tell Ruby and Yang when they woke up!

Honestly, that would've been the better writing choice too! Yang still would've had her angst because they could've had Weiss get taken back to Atlas before she got the chance to tell Yang!