Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-16774229-20130903200630/@comment-14909251-20140409073529

EmbraceTheHood wrote: Okay, so I can't believe it took me this long to find this blog post, but regarding the White Trailer, the fight with the Giant Armor is more likely than not to be a metaphor. If you pause the video right at the part where she is struck by the GA (2:51 on YouTube), you can see her looking up at it (very angrily), and her own reflection can be seen in her eye. It is also synonomous with the lyrics of "Mirror, Mirror", suggesting that whatever Weiss is fighting represents a part of herself that she absolutely despises, and is trying to break free from. The way the GA shatters at the end of the trailer seems as though it is a broken mirror, and it further pushes my (and many others') theory that the entire fight was in Weiss's head.



The whole "it's a metaphor" thing is a nice idea, but the fact is she still has that scar in the story. Were the scar not a result of that fight then it seems off to me that they would include her wound in the trailer at all. I mean, in the trailer it is fairly obvious that we are not seeing the fight as it was happening, but something recalled in her mind as she is performing, yet this does not mean the whole battle was metaphorical. Dreams, for instance, may simply be a replay of memories with alterations and daydreaming can be the same way.