Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-30530552-20170817022627

As a general rule of thumb with rebellions and revolution, the faces you put into the spotlight are the ones that are the cleanest or the dirtiest depending on the message you want to send. This whole thing got reiterated into the book I've been reading as of late, The House of Spirits which talked about the dictatorship, political instability, and class differences in Chile through the very strange De Valle / Trueba families.

The ones who suffer the most warrant sympathy and become martyrs whereas the clean faces either quietly pull the strings & set the stage or become the face that promises better things despite what the actual reality might be.

Bearing this in mind, I don't know how effective Blake would be at fixing the White Fang. Maybe a flashback to some extreme racism is in order to warrant some sympathy for her cause, but that wouldn't necessarily work since that's the whoel reason they are violent. The other aspect doesn't work well since she doesn't yet have the real connections that we know of to secure any power to manipulate the playing field, since Ghira isn't directly affiliated with the White Fang anymore, instead more of just a sidelined leader looking at his options. Perhaps Sienna Khan would be useful to Blake's cause, whether as a victim or supporter.

In any case, tough to say what'll happen.

@Nikolai: I like those ideas. Flashbacks and sympathy would be useful, but the family thing seemed a little too sentimental to me. And unless she's staying in Menagerie, I don't think we'll get to see that option fulfiled unless there's some sort of heartfelt good-bye when they leave or a tragedy. Perhaps treating Sun as more of an ally & friend than a nuisance would be helpful to, since she's basically done nothing but insult him the whole time.