Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-173.63.124.194-20140411003315/@comment-4010415-20140412173309

173.63.124.194 wrote: the black trailer is only spoilery in hindsight, at the time we had no idea what anything in the trailer was, it was blake, adam, and killing robots on a train. later we found out all the plot points regaurding SDC, white fang, faunus, and were able to piece together what was actually hapening in the trailer, and still we don't know what was in the crate adam and blake opened up, it could just be dust, it could be something more diabolical. Yeah, but we were able to piece it together before episode 15. I figured out that the Black Trailer had something to do with Weiss before the first episode was even out because I noticed the Schnee snowflake symbols on the shipping containers. From that, I pretty much figured out that Weiss is a member of a rich family that owns a highly successful company, and Blake and Adam were against her family's company for some reason.

From the song, we were all able to deduce that Blake and Adam were part of some group that was subjugated and oppressed. The line "ruthless human rule" sounded odd until episode 1, when they mentioned faunus, so between From Shadows, Blake's bow, and the reveal of the existence of faunus, pretty much everyone could tell from a mile away that Blake is a faunus.

In episode 2, Blake mentioned that the Schnee Dust Company is also known for its "controversial labor forces and questionable business partners." Everyone instantly assumed that the "controversial labor forces" was faunus labor and that was why Blake and Adam had targeted the SDC. It was only confirmed in episode 16, when Blake said that some of the White Fang's targets were companies that use faunus labor.

I think if the Black Trailer had never come out and Blake's bow looked less like cat ears (a lot of people mistook it for cat ears until they looked closer), we wouldn't have seen it coming quite as easily, at least not from the very beginning of the volume.