Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-34633327-20170913121315

73.Anon.52 wrote: KingFubuki92 wrote: SpiritedDreaming wrote: KingFubuki, the monetary issue comes into it as being part of the reason she joined the White Fang. If her parents died or were injured and lost their jobs, they would not have been able to pay for her schooling at the expensive Atlas school. If they can't pay, the school won't let her continue studying there - especially since she is a Faunus, so a 'payment plan' option likely wouldn't even be offered.

Therefore she leaves the school due to not being able to pay her tuition and gets picked up by the White Fang in her moment of weakness. I misinterpreted the statement then, assuming he meant she joined for the money to send it back to her parents if they are still alive, as the debate up to that point was whether or not they were alive. to a point I meant both... I'm not saying the WF gives her more than room, board, and training... but that's better than homeless/job-searching/theft/prostitution. which by virtue of freeing her parents obligation means that if they are still alive they didn't need to worry about her.

...Unless she ran off without their approval like Blake did to Kali and Ghira. Since they wanted her to blend in with humans, it seems like they would be aimed in the opposite direction of the WF, wanting cohabitation with Humans rather than Bloodshed. So if she wanted to join, I doubt they'd be okay with it, meaning she either is an Orphan from the Mine Collapse and Joined the WF out of hatred for Mantle/Atlas and nowhere else to go, or she ran off on her own without her parents approval and Joined the WF out of regret for disparaging Faunus while at Atlas, anger at humans for doing to begin with upon realizing how severe the discrimination is, and there being nowhere else for her to go. I say nowhere else in this case cause, well, she assaulted 3 bitches. Bitches or not she could still have been expelled, especially with her Faunus nature apparent now, and I doubt she was wanting to work at the mines.