Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171201215836/@comment-4134422-20171202235956

I'm surprised on how much Weiss can grow. I mean, if she could get over Blake being an former member of the WF within a day, I can only imagine what she can accomplish after 6~8 months of thinking.

When she commented to Yang on how she doesn't know how it is to have gone through she things she did, on how it's just another version of "suffering", I couldn't help but remember all the way back to the White Trailer's opening:

"Everyone is entitled to their own sorrow, for the heart has no metrics or forms of measure."

It's really nice to see Weiss more understanding of other's sufering beyond her own, while not diminishing it in the slightest.

Now, I'm unsure on whether Ilia will have a redemption arc later on because of her inmediate actions, but I couid say there's some hope for her.

As we have seen throughout Vol4, Blake's short and Vol5, Ilia's not a remorseless person. She's clearly hesitant into taking big, drastic measures against Blake. Vol4's finale clearly showed how the Albain Brothers are taking advantage of her sorrow and misguiding her hate for their own convenience. While she might be headed towards the "Adam path", she's no borderline psycopath.

Ilia is basically 1) Too deep into the WF plans to back off and 2) In "the unrequited person sides with the evil ex-lover to make the object of their affection suffer" situation. I just hope she can see that's no way of loving someone, not matter the suffering you had on your own.

Makes wonder why Ilia decided to stick with Adam's way of thinking despite Blake having left. Adam is THE reason why she left (and let's not forget Adam was willing to not hunting her down after the Black trailer, before Cinder came back to him as a half-Maiden), so why Ilia didn't leave after Blake, especially now that we know she had feelings for her?