Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-4010415-20190128053225

Nikoli the rebel wrote: ^ I would make the case that we don't have to see Blake experiencing any more discrimination or confirm that she never lived in the mansion for long. It would just be an episode of confirming stuff we already knew or had solid evidence for.

She spent a good chunk of her childhood on the road or in a raiding party with the WF. That should balance out any short period of privledged time she spent at the mansion before she left. And there are other explanations for how she knew it was that house. Except a pretty large chunk of the fanbase don't know any of that.

They're too hard-headed to understand that Blake didn't spend her life living in the lap of luxury while crying about things that didn't actually affect her. They literally sit there and accuse her of being a privileged brat whose passion for fighting for Faunus equality has been "diminished" with the revelation that her dad is a chieftan living in a giant mansion that they can't seem to understand that she didn't live in.

And I didn't say that I want flashbacks of Blake experiencing discrimination. I said I wanted flashbacks of her seeing discrimination firsthand, as in seeing it happening to other Faunus, which fueled her passion and desire to stay with the White Fang and fight.

They could tie it in with the Atlas arc, where seeing a Schnee mine could remind her of a time where she, Ghira, and other White Fang members protested at a Schnee mine. Perhaps the police were called on their peaceful protest and used aggressive tactics to make the protesters go away. Such things happened during the American Civil Rights Movement. People would gather for a peaceful protest or a march, and the police would arrive with dogs and high-power water hoses to knock people down. Maybe one reason that Blake gets that flashback is because she sees the perimeter has more security and notes that it's probably more so to fend off protests or sabotage from the White Fang.