Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3146930-20140708014442/@comment-14909251-20140719051528

Wow, what madness have I loosed? Soooo, to break it down. I think Weiss being "lonely" is key to understanding the nature of her relationship with her family and with her team, while Blake being from an insurgent organization is key to understanding her relationships. Weiss was forced by blood into the role of SDC heir and all that entails. Her loneliness suggests that is really not something she truly enjoys or relishes, but rather she has had to grudgingly accept it as she was never given a choice. Blake, on the other hand, could have left the White Fang at any time as there were no blood ties to keep her there.

Weiss probably had no friends of her own growing up, while Blake would have had people in the White Fang who she felt very close to like Adam. Weiss had no choice but to be an active participant in SDC activities as it was a matter of her family forcing it on her. Blake, on the other hand, actively supported and sympathized with the mission of the White Fang for most of her life. For Weiss, her life has been defined as a struggle between what she wants and what her family wants, invariably meaning between pursuing her own path and choosing the company path. For Blake, her life has been definied as a struggle between human rule and a Faunus insurgency.

Looking at it that way, it is much more likely for Weiss to choose her team over her family, because Weiss has always been resistant to her family's plans and in RWBY she has had some success in ending her loneliness. Weiss would be making a choice between doing something she really doesn't want and being happpy. Not a hard choice. Blake, however, would be choosing between humans she is never going to be certain can fully accept her and the group of Faunus whose cause she believed in for many years and who doubled as her surrogate family.

Now, Weiss has a wealthy and powerful family and may have endured some form of abuse, which means she may be susceptible to other pressures. However, this would not quite be the same as treachery, because it would not really be a choice. Basically, RWBY would see Weiss as being in need of rescue from a controlling family who does not want her to choose her own path. Blake, by contrast, only needs to feel uncertain about her team's willingness to accept her and all her past mistakes, while being offered acceptance by the White Fang. Imagine if, in The Stray, Blake had run into Adam rather than Sun. Blake being sucked back in would not be completely absurd in that scenario and that outcome would basically leave the other members of Team RWBY feeling as if Blake betrayed them.