Talk:Blake Belladonna/@comment-27654346-20171114053520

I had been doing some thinking in the shower, and I realized how severely Blake's family cripples her previous character growths. One of the biggest aspects of her personality is that her race was been discriminated against by the 1%, such as Weiss's family. She brought the point of view of an oppressed people into team RWBY. The problem is that she is literally the Weiss Schnee of the Faunus. She isn't the victim of discrimination, he had the choice to live in her family's cushy mansion and private guard. Blake is insanely far removed from the typical Faunus, causing her to lose so much of her credibility in my eyes. Hearing her explain the discrimination she and her kind faced doesn't sound nearly as credible once you realize she herself is of the 1%.

Sheesh, I wrote this before taking a look at the wiki and it looks like there's already some hate on Blake's story going around. I feel like most of the shortcomings that are listed below are mostly due to how shallowly spread out the plot has become. Out of all of the current character threads; RNJR, Ozpin, and Qrow at Haven; Yang, Raven, and Weiss with the bandits; and the info regarding Adam, Hazel, Salem, and the rest of the villains; it seems like Blake's thread down in Menagerie is kind of getting the shaft. It was mentioned that it's basically just presenting Faunus politics, and I believe that's mostly true because of how little time RT has for it. The potential for strong character growth is certainly there, but the plot is shooting itself in the foot by literally being spread across continents.