User blog comment:HazelQuill7445/Awesome fan art/@comment-34633327-20170906032857/@comment-4010415-20170906142215

Actually... we cannot judge Neon's usual attitude based on that doubles round tournament fight. I don't think we fully know Neon's true personality.

It seems to me that the only reason Neon behaved the way she did toward Yang is because it was her strategy to beat Yang in the fight. She made Yang get really sloppy by pissing her off.

Pay attention to how the conversation went:


 * Neon starts off by mocking Yang, but all she got in response was "Uh..."


 * So, she insulted Yang's hair. Yang got kind of annoyed, but that wasn't enough for Neon, so she changed the subject...


 * ...to insulting Yang's weight, which actually made Yang angry. Notice that, during the actual fight, Neon insults Yang's weight a few more times. "Look, now you're bottom-heavy too!" "I wasn't trying to say that you should go on a diet! I was saying you really need to go on a diet!" "You're fat."

The pre-fight conversation was Neon prodding Yang to figure out what would piss her off.

Flynt also prodded at Weiss, just not as much. He talked about how her family ruined his father's shop, and then he said "Too bad all that money can't buy you skill", the latter of which seemed to actually annoy Weiss, rather than just make her sad.

It was strategy. Neon may not usually purposefully piss people off. She was just doing it to throw Yang off.

Though, I do see where Al got the idea - similar to trolling the trolls. And Neon's theme song does portray her as having her "Love myself" attribute at an incredibly high rank. It may have nothing to do with any discrimination she faces, but one possibility is "Fuck you, I'm fabulous! You can call me a dirty, untrustworthy animal all you want, you're just jealous!~"