Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33053086-20171217012417/@comment-107.4.135.44-20171217041608

ChishioKunrin wrote: 2601:440:8400:933E:F5D0:80F2:2E0:2F1F wrote:

Or are we talking about her growing as a character? Because, boy, she's certianly grown. She's 'telelported' into the state she is now, still as immature and black-and-white as ever. 'The White Fang are ALL EEEEVVVIIIILLLL they must all DIE, KILL THEM ALL except Illia 'cuz she gay maybe.' It was an arbitrary switch in her head that was flipped because apparently no one liked characters growing like real people. Unless poeple really think sudden and immediate changes in personality are attracting... Oh dear god. When did she change to viewing the White Fang as all being evil and needing to be killed? I don't recall that.

Keep in mind, what caused Blake to finally decide to leave the White Fang in the first place was Adam dismissing the lives of the innocent train crew in the Black Trailer. Murder of innocent people is where Blake draws the line, and we were shown that before Volume 3. Volume 4 episode 5, Blake confronting the Albian brothers. She assumed that whhat was presented to her was bad and only bad. And she assumed completely correctly - says something about the maturity of the writers if Blake of all people gets to be correct about something.

I was exaggerating my point, saying that she wants to kill the White Fang now, as an example to her character development being completely unrealistic and binary. That "switch". I'm fine with unrealistic development in some circumstances (comedies for example) but here it is played off as one of the more serious aspects of the narrative. Probably says something again that the writers haven't realized that.

But anyway, yeah no Blake has grown a whole lot. And all major cases for establishing that or her entire personality happened in implication and off-screen actions. She's grown. We weren't shown the big beats, but yeah. Realism and efficiency in presentation at its finest.