Talk:Blake Belladonna/@comment-203.106.149.100-20130911140857/@comment-10390252-20130911143958

A lot depends on Blake - How does she feel about her racial identity? If she's always felt that being either a Faunus or a hybrid made her 'inferior' in some ways (even if only on a subconscious level), she might go to extreme lengths to disguise her true nature, even in front of fellow Faunus who know perfectly well who and what she is.

For what it's worth, I don't believe that interpretation myself. It's my belief that she's a hybrid and she's functionally indistinguishable from a human apart from her slightly pointed (human) ears and her cat-like eyes. It's only when she's in action that the differences really appear: she more agile and faster than a pureblood human and doesn't have to use her aura as much as, say, Ruby does to flash-step.

It thus becomes something of a noble thing for Blake - she could pass for human if she chose to do so but she chose not to, preferring to fight for Faunus liberation. Unfortunately, White Fang has become twisted and incresasingly violent of late and she can't be part of it anymore ("Your hopes have become my burden") so she's trying to find her own way to fix this problem ("I will find my own liberation"). I'm pretty sure that getting into Beacon (with Ozpin knowing precisely who and what she is and used to be) is part of this.