Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20130728185452/@comment-10390252-20130824211150

Teravor wrote: Actually, I would like to see Adam vs Blake. I think that Adam may try to blackmail Blake with her past in an attempt to do something for him (assassinate or kidnap Weiss?). Blake has a long, hard time handling this because she treasures her friends and she has the sneaking suspicion that they wouldn't want to be associated with a 'Faunus Freak'. She spends a rough few days trying to persuade herself that Weiss is some impersonal 'enemy', complaining to Ruby how she never properly apologised for being mean to her and asking Yang pointed questions about Weiss's performance in team practices.

In the end, she can't do it. Maybe she and Weiss have a conversation and she suddenly realises that she can't see Weiss as the faceless daughter of the Oppressor because she's her friend. Some things are more important then her happiness; her conscience for one - if she is condemned to be alone for her principles then so be it. Because she knows Adam well enough to know that he'll have a backup plan, she warns the others. This requires that she tell the story. The whole story.

Surprisingly, it is Weiss who takes it the worst. When she hears the atrocities that the SDC's workers routinely commit against Faunus conscriptees, including children like Blake was at the time, she's reduced to tears and hysterical denial.

Whether or not it's true, they have to face Adam. Adam turns up at the rendezvous with some White Fang mooks. Yang, Ruby and Weiss make short work of them whilst Blake goes up against Adam. He calls her a traitor and worse; he throws all the torments she suffered as a girl in her face and snaps that he should have left her to be used up (as 'recreational resources') and killed like so many other half-bloods are. He drives Blake back for a few steps before Weiss tries to blind-side him with her top-power attack. He blocks it with Moonslice and is about to take out 'the Spawn of Schnee' when Blake strikes again, Gambol Shroud striking Blush on the join of hilt and blade and shattering the blood-coloured blade. The explosion of uncontrolled released energy throws everyone apart and Adam flees as everyone else is still stunned.

There is a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming conversation at the end between Blake and Weiss. Weiss says that Blake is her friend, not a 'Fauna Freak' and she couldn't let anyone hurt her. When Blake reminds her that she was part of White Fang for years, Weiss counters that she was fighting for her freedom. "Besides, you've turned from that path.  Now you're trying to build a better future rather than smash and steal your way to it; I don't think that's the act of a bad person." Weiss then puts Myrtenaster aside and stands with her arms outstretched. "Take your vengeance," Weiss offers, her voice shaky. "I won't stop you."

Blake draws Gambol Shroud and we briefly see her head in the centre of Crescent Rose's Lead Computing Gunsight. "Don't do it, Blake," we hear Ruby whisper.

Blake puts the flat of Gambol Shroud's blade on Weiss's shoulder and smiles. "The reason I left White Fang is that I do not believe in guilt by association.  I will not kill someone because they share the blood of someone who oppressed me.  I will not destroy lives because they happen to be part of the same race as some who did me harm.  That's Adam's way; it isn't mine.  It never was and the day it becomes my way... then that is the day when you need to put me down like the animal I would have become."

"You'll never be an animal to me," Weiss affirms roughly as the two hug.