Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3391158-20170904153455/@comment-34633327-20170907123523

It seems I can't properly phrase my concern. My concern isn't that they aren't properly showing the faunus discrimination, it is that there was no way for them to do/show that with the short. What could they have shown us? The Ilia flashback itself? Unless this short was from her perspective, that has no place here. Blake's memories from when she was in the WF and witnessed discrimination? What relevance would that have to Blake's goal in V5? A casual radio report about an accident in Atlas like what Chish suggested? There is no way to hear it since the CCT is down. The only way I could see them fit it into here is if two faunus were casually talking about something they personally faced, but even then that is still Tell, not Show. Chish, I like your ideas on how to show it, makes me wish they'd hire you for the Writing Staff like they hired Hajime for help with the art, but I can't see any way they could have fit this into Blake's short, which is on a continent with nothing but Faunus, without using an irrelevant flashback, as the only way they could use a flashback was if it fit into what Blake was doing in V5.

I actually just thought of one. Say the faunus they were chasing, Blake actually caught at first and Sun pinned him to the ground. Have him say this:

White Fang Member: Disgusting Traitors! How could you defend the humans, the ones that did THIS to ME!

Then he reveals his eye is glass or his arm is a prosthetic, THEN have Ilia help him by shooting at the ground around them, distracting Sun long enough to kick him off the guy. That one scene could potentially paint a light that this faunus was injured by a human bad enough to join the WF. Yes it could just as likely be an injury he got while in the WF, but it gets you thinking.

But unless they could do something like that, showing it in the present or through a relevant flashback, there would be no way for us to see it without it being shoehorned in, as it wouldn't connect to Blake's arc in V5.