Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-14909251-20131108064223

First off, Weiss Girl Schnee is confirmed. In spite of everything she said of the White Fang, it is clear Blake's association barely fazed her and it seems she was ready to accept Blake even without her having to say she was no longer a member. Obviously, it is not someone being a Faunus that bothers her so, not a racist.

There are some interesting points that raise further questions.

Weiss said that her family has been targeted as long as she can remember and that since she was child she has seen family friends disappearing and board members executed. Blake says the White Fang only turned violent five years ago and does not mention any killings. I do wonder if Weiss was saying that there are other Faunus and groups of Faunus who have gone after her family in a violent manner. That, or Blake is downplaying or ignorant of all that the White Fang has done, perhaps even before the leadership change. I suspect downplaying is the more likely answer, though it may still means Weiss lost people to the Faunus.

Another key point is that we appear to have a rough idea of when the Faunus War occurred as the White Fang was apparently formed in the aftermath, meaning it was a few decades ago at most and possibly even more recent. So, it is clearly not "The War" that Jaune spoke of as that was at least a century ago.

On another note, I do not think Blake's "almost born into it" comment should be taken as too significant. Seems likely this is more that she was born into a very politically-active family or something and got involved early on as a result. Her reasons for abandoning the group also seem a bit misrepresented. Despite claiming that she left because of how they began to be seen, the Black Trailer makes it seem more that she left because they were becoming callous about taking human life. As I said above, I think Blake is downplaying the White Fang's actions a bit and thus downplaying her own involvement with it to an extent. One could even suggest that she is outright lying for some reason, probably shame or guilt.