Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.146.149.161-20150813074512/@comment-4010415-20150923193813

DiegoAnime3000 wrote: I mean, it does seem like Ruby and Yang were taking Blake's side on the matter even though her argument is that genocide sociopaths are just misguided victims and shouldn't be treated any less because of it.

I wonder how they'll react to Winter's hatred for the White Fang now that they are aware that they're the main villians and tried to kill a lot of innocent people. Well... I think it was more so that Ruby and Yang had gotten to know Blake and didn't think she was a vicious killer, so they wanted her to elaborate on what was going on with her before judging her. Weiss, meanwhile, was taken aback upon discovering that a seemingly-human girl she has been sharing a room with and attending classes with and thought she knew is actually a Faunus, and this girl let slip that she has an association with the organization that caused Weiss' suffering.

I mean, imagine, you've been sharing a room with someone who has an association with an organization that has been responsible for the disappearances and deaths of people around you, and you finally discover that association. The fridge horror there is "She could have slit my throat in the middle of the night! I've been letting my guard down around one of them!!"

But after her kneejerk reaction, Weiss gave it some thought and realized that Blake was not the kind of person she was expecting a White Fang member to be. So, after 12 hours, it boiled down to her wanting to know one thing and one thing only: Is Blake still a member? When Blake told her no, that was it. Blake had renounced her villainous ways and really wasn't the kind of person Weiss was expecting. And that's all Weiss needed to know.

I feel that if Weiss had known that Blake was a Faunus from the very beginning, things would've turned out different. Weiss' discrimination would've clouded her judgment right off the bat, and it would've been harder for her to take the time to actually get to know Blake as a person, rather than seeing her as just another Faunus. That kind of judgment is what Blake is afraid of and is why Blake hides her cat ears.