Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-17760348-20131021233145/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140319164217

@Ben

1) Blake doesn't strike me as the kind to develop schoolgirl crushes on other people, she actually seems fairly mature about the whole process and if anything would perhaps be reserved in her pursuit or acceptance of romantic feelings.

2) The comedy aspect doesn't work, we've already seen Blake and Adam work together, he's still a confidence and ice cold killer with a fondness for cliche action movie tropes (or at least I seriously hope they work that last part into his personality more prominently)

3) I doubt it. "Ninjas in Love" is, by definition a series that goes against the belief that led to Arranged Marriages. Blake, if she was a follower of such traditional norms I don't think she would be reading such smut (or at least fluff) action novels since she'd be of the belief that love develops during a relationship rather than sparking prior to the start of it.

It is still possible that she was actually in love with Adam which would explain her fondness of romantic novels since she believed she was already unequivocally in love with a single individual but then there's the issue of common practise in arranged marriages being against promiscuity (Sun's behaviour, Blake reading such novella) and the fact that Faunus are just another race, so it's more likely that all Faunus (especially considering the emphasis on how similar they actually are to humans and the fact that at some point I suspect that they WILL ship Blake and/or Sun) communities share similar diversity in culture and tradition as human cultures.

It's possible that some will practise arranged marriages yes, but the vast majority of the individualist populations (which Vale and potentially all of Vytal seem to be considering their love of such a likely-capitalist festival)  would still believe in relationship formation being dictated by spontaneous ignition rather than pre-defined bargaining.