Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140808001942/@comment-9090085-20140814021311

Zolnir wrote: Sigh. Guys. This word. Face value. FFS. So we're going to pretend that we've only known for ten minutes instead of the what, three hours we've known them? Really? I mean, I know that doesn't sound like much, but in an animated medium, it kinda is.

Not to say your points are inherently wrong, the White Fang is a terrorist group... or at least it has been since the leadership change five years ago; before that it was a very noble group. And Blake likely joined several years before that change, and so I imagine she kind of got swept along with the fervor(remember, she did say it worked... in a fashion).

Frankly, I think that gives her a somewhat conflicted view of authority, considering she's effectively been betrayed twice: once by humans who speak of equality, but show discrimination and hate; and again by the Faunus who acted with noble intentions, but turned out just as bad, if not worse, then their oppressors.

You know, this probably plays a big part in why she doesn't trust Ozpin...

On a tangent, this is probably why people don't like archetypes - because that archetype is all they see, or at least all they can see without someone explaining to their face what something is about a character(not that writers don't also fall into the trap of making the character's archetype the beginning and end of their character - which I don't think is a trap RWBY has fallen into yet.).

An archetype is just a starting point, what's important is how the character "grows" from there.(If you want to see why not using archetypes at all is equaly bad, just watch Hero Factory: Invasion From Below, and tell me what everyone's character is.)