Talk:Jacques Schnee/@comment-124.197.38.215-20180426021846/@comment-26018514-20180427165233

Who said anything about WHY SHE LEFT? That is completely unrelated to the conversation at hand. She left because she saw something, knows something about the futility of Ozpin's quest. It is likely she tried or watched someone try and fail to kill Salem, and knows that SHE CANNOT. When someone of action knows victory is impossible and the cost of trying... they stop trying.

This is how "A Simple Soul" trope works: The powerful heroes have failed, know or assume the quest is impossible, so they stop trying, while the "simple soul" does not or cannot see a reason to stop, either succeeding where stronger have failed, or inspiring them to try again.

So when Raven stopped trying to save the entire F****** world because she saw it as impossible, she chose a lesser, more achievable goal so that she didn't take a hit to her pride she could not take... she chose to protect the Tribe(doubling down on her responsibilities to them) and convinced herself that was enough and that she was not a failure/coward... and that is what Yang's speech called her on and made her face, that her convictions are now weak and have undercut what strength and power she may have and set all her plans to failure.