Talk:Blake Belladonna/@comment-33389681-20180517150658/@comment-4010415-20180517152621

Except she ran away for two different reasons in Volumes 1 and 3.

In Volume 1, she had been hiding that she's a Faunus and former White Fang member, and she got into an argument with Weiss, who showed that she vehemently hated the White Fang and didn't trust Faunus. When Blake slipped up and revealed that she was a White Fang member, Weiss looked shocked. Add in the story that Ilia told Blake in the Blake Character Short: Ilia accidentally revealed that she was a Faunus after having hidden it at school, and her "friends" were afraid of her. Ilia's "friends" had said that Faunus are dirty and liars; Weiss had called Sun a "filthy Faunus" to Penny and told Blake that Faunus are liars. There's no wonder why Blake ran away when she slipped up! Weiss reminded her of what happened to Ilia!

Conclusion: This wasn't her running away due to trauma; this was her running away because she was afraid that Weiss feared and hated her.

Her running away in Volume 3 was trauma, yes, but her running away in Volume 1 was not.

And hey, at least she's not backtracking as much as Lapis Lazuli in Steven Universe. Lapis reminds me of Blake a lot, and she just keeps running away and hiding over and over and over again.