Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20170101170328/@comment-14909251-20170103012343

Arkantos95 wrote: Honestly I wouldn't describe Blake as sour towards anyone before V4 barring when she went into overdrive hunting for information on the WF during the dance arc in V2. Yes, she got mad at Weiss for being kinda racist (not that she didn't have legitimate justifications for being that way), but to be fair she was a member of the people she was disparaging. And for whatever reason, she seemed to genuinely believe in the cause of the WF before Adam started going all Final Solution on everyone. Her having a privledged background doesn't mean she's incapable of seeing the plight of her race as a whole.

And now the irritability can be written off as being because A) Sun genuinely has no right to be where he is right now. I completely understand and respect why he came along, but that doesn't change the fact that he doesn't belong there. and B) she got stabbed and watched her best friend get mutilated before her very eyes by her abusive ex-boyfriend, so she's kinda dealing with some major shit and is on the jumpy side. Blake's whole thing is being a sour puss. Her very first interaction was to give Weiss crap and she probably did that more because Weiss is a Schnee then because of some personal annoyance with her behavior. Then you had her first interaction with Yang where she rudely rejected her and Ruby at first. It was all okay with the belief that Blake had some legitimate cause for her attitude, but now it just seems as if she's a brat. At 12 years old she was cruel to her parents for "abandoning the cause" and ran off. She then abandons that group to become a huntress, yet makes a point of hiding her identity. Having apparently been from Menagerie where she would not have experienced any racism or discrimination and being formerly part of a group fighting for equality, her concealing her identity as a Faunus is even worse. Everything about it just makes her look like an extremely spoiled and self-centered hypocrite.

Even her interactions with Weiss make her look bad in light of it. Part of the problem with people defending Blake and dissing Weiss is that Weiss was completely oblivious to why Blake would take offense, but the reverse was not true. Blake had every reason to know why Weiss would have such a poor opinion of the White Fang and not be amenable to hear about how they're just misunderstood. Yet now we can say it is even more than that as Weiss had a family environment that is just the complete opposite of Blake's situation. Blake had a good loving family that treated her well and she then heartlessly ditched them to go fight "bad guys" in increasingly immoral ways. Weiss had to deal with being essentially beset by terrorists targeting her for her family and not because of anything she actually did wrong, while being part of her family is itself apparently like being held captive by a terrorist. Makes me think a lot of Blake's hostility towards Weiss at that point is now more about feeling ashamed and not being able to face it, which makes it worse.