Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131104040515

Who thinks that Blake's parents could have been the leaders of the White Fang?

I dare say that their ideologies were nowhere as radical at the beginning. Remember, during Episode 1 the White Fang was said to be 'once peaceful'. They may have died to reasons yet unknown; something as sinister as an assassination.

It explains the Black Trailer's words very well: Your hopes have become my burden. Hopes that she might succeed and lead the White Fang, either from her late parents, Adam or anyone else who wishes for it.

Blake was too young that her words didn't carry much weight in White Fang - now that her parents were dead - and to begin with she never felt like she could live up to the responsibility. For a while she perhaps leaded the White Fang, guided by her hatred and anger towards the murderer of her parents, but in the end, she was just too gentle and good in nature.

In the end, she realized with terror that what she did was very wrong. She had unwittingly turned the White Fang into a radical group, in complete opposition of what her parents had strived to work on, and that she was undoing their tens of years of effort because of her single moment of hatred.

She was ultimately scared, she didn't want any part of the bloodshed any longer, and so she ran away in hopes that with her leaving, the White Fang might turn back into what it was before. Secretly, she also longed deeply to live the normal, almost peaceful life she once had before the tragedy happened.

The more radical and senior members of the White Fang took complete control after she left, and the original ideologies - whatever they have left - became warped completely.

Obviously, we heard from Weiss Schnee's confession that the White Fang has been harassing her family for many years, as far back as it her grandfather's. This particular conflict however, does not relate to how the White Fang used to normally operate.

The reason for this is very simple: The Schnee corporation, we can probably agree, isn't the cleanest organization ever and most likely abused and even kill its Faunu workers. In our real world, before the Mine and Health Safety Act 1977, corporations literally treat coal miners like dirt and do not care if they lived or die. Safety equipments more often than not failed, if they were even prepared in the first place. The same may be happening here, except far worse since the Faunus were a discriminated race.

Therefore the White Fang may have a personal grudge towards the Schnee corporation, and they've been at it each other's throat since the very beginning. While the White Fang may operate benovelently and peacefully towards other parties, the Schnee corpoation may be the only party which conflict they believe cannot be resolved through peaceful, non-violent means.

Not to mention that even if the White Fang leaders try to avoid conflict, some of the more radical members may be operating at their own accord to bring hell upon the evil Humans who have tortured their friends and family to death. Obviously, the same may be applied to the Schnee corporation, where depending on its structure and shareholding, the words of the founder may be worth as much as dirt.

Only until the death of Blake's parents, that the White Fang has turned completely radical, and whatever core values they once had were completely changed. Perhaps it was exactly the death of her parents that prompted such outrage from them. They now believed that the Humans are evil and a sworn enemy to the Faunus as long as they existed, and strived to wipe them all out from the face of Remnant. Only then they believe that the Faunus would be free from human oppression.

Now that I think about it, this all come together rather harmoniously. No wonder Blake was so protective about the White Fang. The organization wasn't originally like that, and when her parents were the leaders it had perhaps seen much success between Human-Faunu negotiation. The dream they once had had looked possible and within reach.

But then her parents were gone, and everything literally went to hell.

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And about Adam, he was like a mentor to her alright - or more specifically, her personal bodyguard. 