Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161120163758/@comment-14909251-20161129231044

Arkantos95 wrote: 1) I think you're overestimating Jacques' opinion of his daughter and the fact that he's probably going to want to keep her where she can be controlled, i.e. Atlas.

He could accompany her and firmly believe that as long as he is with her she will not dare defy him. This doesn't require having a high opinion of Weiss, only that he sees her as a useful prop who can be used to portray the image of his family, his company, and his Kingdom, that he wants to portray to the world.

2) That's my point exactly. She has no reason to leave, and unless something completely unprecedented happens, she won't get one. Even the highly probable attack on the charity event wouldn't be an actual reason unless it somehow screws over Atlas worse than Vale was after the fall of Beacon.

We can't say that without knowing what is going to happen at the charity event. One reason I have argued in the past for Watts being from Atlas is that he could stop there on his way to Mistral and potentially be involved in something with the SDC. Provided Team WTCH has some means to communicate with each other Weiss, or someone such as Klein, could perhaps overhear something that is actually about Ruby. If she were given any reason to believe one of her team was in immediate danger that would be enough. That is just one possibility.

3) Someone who met a random group of teenagers six-eight months previously during the most hectic period in recent history? Plus I don't see why she'd leave any clues behind, she has to know her father well enough to know that he'd come after her the first chance he got.

Why would she suspect her father would go after her? Ruby isn't some super spy and she might correctly assume that he wouldn't leave because of Yang. The fact Oobleck and Port were asking why he wasn't going after Ruby suggests they do not see it as some improbable task. All they need is one person who remembers or has a record of shuttling some group of plucky teenagers to Anima some time back and they'll have a pretty good idea where she is going. Once more, we have to assume they don't already know where she is heading.

4) Long enough that it's believable that she's worked through anything by being there. Her going straight from meeting up with her parents to hopping onto a ship to People Who I Know Want Me Dead HQ breaks my suspension of disbelief.

It can be long enough in-universe without being long for us. A few weeks could pass between episodes so long as it was reasonable. Do you think the remainder of Volume 4 is just going to have Yang training montages? They can easily skip a few weeks of training, a few weeks of Blake twiddling her thumbs in Menagerie, a few weeks of Weiss practicing her singing, and a few weeks of RNJR walking.

5) Is it really cowardice to not go up against the WF where they're strongest? Where their leader and at least one of their top operatives who already handed Blake her ass without breaking a sweat are most likely to be? Because that would be uncharacteristically rash and foolish for Blake.

We aren't even talking about her going up against the White Fang, but literally just being in the same country as them. Mind you, there is more than enough reason to believe the White Fang would have a presence in Menagerie so it isn't as if she is avoiding them like the plague. A lot of us thought she might be in Vacuo because that is seemingly a place where they have the least presence, assuming they have any at all.