Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-29684190-20191116162010/@comment-24994749-20191120032226

Masma93 wrote: At this point I am waiting for the end of RWBY to be sure about Blake's definitive love interest. The ship tease between her and both Yang and Sun is really contradictory (..) I wouldn't call it contradictory.

Both Sun and Yang became Blake's friends and probably developed romantic feeling for her around roughly the same time.

Sun got a head start on Yang on his relationship with Blake when he was the one she ran into after her argument with Weiss in V1.

{There is an AU somewhere, where Yang didn't stay sitting in that chair and followed Blake out of the dorms. Maybe things would have built up differently between them if she had (just how things might have been different if they had landed on different parts of the Emerald Forest during the initiation and ended up paired with different people.)}

Then, after Beacon fell, Sun was the one in a position to follow Blake, and thus the one that happened to be there for the fallout of the WF plot and the one to give Blake the friendship speech she needed.

{There is an AU somewhere, where things go down different for Yang and she is the one to go after Blake. Or someone prevents Blake from leaving and she stays with Ruby and Yang in Patch. Or Blake never runs into Adam.}

When Blake arrives to Mistral, she does so just in time to run into her team and decides it's time to get back together. And Sun decides the best for his team is to go to Vacuo.

{There is an AU somewhere, where Blake's and RWBY's timelines don't quite align, and they miss each other. Or one where they let SSSN into the Salem stuff and they tag along. Or  SSSN decides to attend Atlas Academy and thus tags along.}

Point is, suddenly Sun is not here physically nor is he one of the select group IN the mission, but Yang is both physically here and IN the mission.

Another thing, we as watchers know Sun isn't going to get off-panelled and that the gang will eventually travel to Vacuo. But from an in-universe point of view, Blake cannot know that this isn't the last time they will see each other or how long it will be if they see each other again.

Making it to Vacuo alone is dangerous, Vacuo is dangerous, going to Atlas is dangerous and many more dangerous things are up ahead.

So it makes sense that what might have been with Sun but didn't actually take off before they parted would slip from her mind, and she would start thinking of what might be with Yang who, for the moment, is right in front of her and she has more control over staying there.