Talk:Blake Belladonna/@comment-32220816-20190819030804/@comment-4010415-20190820050459

1. Like I said, 12-year-olds don't have the best decision making skills. She was mad at her parents for, in her mind, running away to a peaceful place where they could hide and be untouched by discrimination. In the mind of someone whose entire life has been on the front lines, would it really feel right to sit comfortably in a giant mansion, isolated from discrimination, and post on social media "Hey guys, racism is wrong. This store is racist, so don't buy from it"?

She had Adam, and probably Sienna, telling her that stealing supplies and burning down stores would achieve more results than just holding a sign. That's the thing, too, is that, as far as Blake knew, that's literally all it was - stealing stuff and burning stores. Thanks to Adam, she believed that all deaths were purely accidental, a side effect of having to fight their way toward whatever they were stealing.

Being 100% peaceful didn't work so well for Ghira, who was nearly killed in that attack we saw in the Adam Character Short. It was thanks to Adam that Ghira survived. This reinforced Sienna's propaganda of "Sometimes violence is necessary."

2. She didn't tell Ozpin about the White Fang in Volume 2 because, as she explained to her teammates in "Welcome to Beacon", she believed the grown-ups couldn't handle the White Fang, for some dumbfuck reason. She has had stupid mentalities, I'll admit.

3. "If Adam wasn't... Adam, and Blake chose to stay the WF, and then she got hurt on a mission, would he be justified to run away because "the reason she got hurt was because she was with him?""

You're kinda neglecting a piece of context there. The reason Adam cut off Yang's arm and went to finish her off was because Blake was right there to see it. His goal was for Blake to suffer. If she's far away from Yang and can't bear witness to the maiming and slaughtering of her friends, then maybe, hopefully, Adam won't do it because he can't take sick, spiteful pleasure in having her be emotionally tortured by it.

4. Speaking of which, I honestly also disagree with how they handled Adam. I wanted him to be a Faunus who genuinely thought they could only change things through violence, having been driven to desperation after what humans did to him and maybe even his parents. I would've been okay with it if he was angry and hurt from Blake leaving him, when she was the person he valued most or something. It's incredibly disappointing that his entire character devolved into nothing but psycho ex, completely throwing aside everything else.

5. Allegedly, Miles and Kerry meant for Blake to hit his arm in the second scene, not his face, but the animators interpreted things differently.