User blog comment:Warmachine375/Where was Team CFVY when Velvet was being bullied by Cardin Winchester and his gang of bullies?/@comment-9464517-20150527154232

The creation of Team CFVY has got to be the single most misguided action Monty, Miles and Kerry have taken with this show to date. I can forgive the setting, I can forgive most of the plot holes, I can forgive the fucking bully arc, but I sure as shit cannot forgive this.

They did what no writer should ever have to do - mess with the continuity of their story to fit fan demands. They yelled, "fuck you" to consistency and turned Velvet from a shy, unassuming outsider in Volume 1 to an unstoppable highly-respected badass in Volume 2. Fans liked her, so they made her a prominent character and gave her an unimaginably strong team, and in doing so they flew in the face of all sensible reasoning.

Why aren't they ever there to help her when she is mercilessly bullied by CRDL? As the blog's writer points out, if someone like Yatsuhashi, who's clearly protective of her, ever found out how shitty CRDL were being to her (and it wouldn't be hard to find out since there were a TON of witnesses around), why wouldn't he track them down and tear them a new asshole? Come to think of it, if she's so great, why doesn't she fight back? Is it because she's opposed to unnecessary violence? Fine, but she's still a well-known and well-respected figure - why doesn't anyone intervene? We see her being bullied by them in a crowded lunch hall, and not one person stands up to them to protect their darling Velvet, or even comments on the implausibility of that situation? CRDL aren't that tough!

It's just bad writing as far as I can see.