Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-11188061-20150627022216

Is it? The whole thing happened a bit too quickly to interfere. The scale was too small, and Velvet didn't look and isn't defenseless, nor was she asking for help. You'll also have to consider that the one act of helping might result in alienation from a differing group, and while Pyrrha is used to being apart from the norm her teammates isn't. At the time Jaune was already being bullied by Team CDRL - how bad do you it'd be if Pyrrha stood up and they channeled all that frustration into Jaune? And that is without saying the galore of troubles Velvet might land herself in, that it's spread around that this second year student needed a first year student to stand up for her.

More importantly, growing up means learning how to protect yourself, and the definition also includes not helping others unless they absolutely need it. There are small matters and then they're big ones. If someone's caught in a car crash we absolutely should help them. If they're being bullied one time in public they may or may not need help, and in this case Velvet clearly can handle herself.