Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-16502426-20131101024335/@comment-14909251-20131118235521

BenRG wrote: It could be interesting if it was Blake. Blake, who has spent all her life fighting (literally) for Faunus equality won't even consider Penny as people until someone calls her out on her attitude - Weiss, specifically.

Maybe a certain white-haired heiress had closer relationships with her family's robo-servants than she did with most humans so she has no problems treating Penny like people (or at least with the same arrogance and assumed superiority that she treats humans). To her, it's the mind that matters, not whether it was made rather than born. She calls Blake out on her absolute hypocracy and it brings the two closer together because Blake is able to reciprocate about Weiss's attitude to Faunus.

Naturally, both their egos are bruised but, as they've both laid a few blows themselves, they can handle it and find a compromise without having to save pride. Not quite what I was thinking. It is more that Blake would feel cheated at the idea that a machine would be accepted more readily than her people. Were Weiss to have a particularly gushy reaction to Penny being a robot, I imagine it would feel a bit insulting to Blake. One thought I have is of Weiss just happily teaching Penny how to act more human, Penny being completely dedicated to learning from her, Ruby and Yang sort of awkwardly pleased at Weiss getting along with her, and Blake grumbling and letting out disgruntled sighs on occasion. At some point it boils over into a fight, but it would be less about prejudice and more about jealousy.