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VedranTheII wrote: Would you kindly…not bring up mind control in this kind of context? Bioshock! Pound it. Best cynical deconstruction of Randian Objectivism masquerading as a video game ever.

On the general matter, I do not think you can compare the White Fang to al-Qaeda exactly. It is more akin to Hamas, the Black Panthers, or the African National Congress even. Also, I think they are kind of underselling the mistreatment of the Faunus at the moment. There are implications of far worse with the mention of "Faunus labor" being one of them. Plus, there was a war, a war between two peoples that was based entirely on identity in which one side was desperately trying to cleanse its territories of the other people. Such conflicts tend to involve massacres, widespread war rape, and internment camps of some or another. If the Faunus War happened when the characters were infants, as I suspect, then there is the possibility that Blake spent her first years in a "relocation camp" or "refugee camp" that would be more accurately described as a concentration camp. Some have suggested this as the reason for her concealing part of her left arm and I imagine that at least has something to do with her reasons for being in the White Fang.

Hence why, even though I think Blake was totally an assassin for the White Fang who killed a bunch of people, I have no real problem being sympathetic towards her character. Later on, I would not be surprised if it becomes an issue, though. When Adam shows up, I fully expect something big and damaging about Blake to come up that will completely floor the rest of the group (possibly the assassin thing or even some specific assassination). Given that Weiss was pretty insistent on the whole "I don't want to hear about your time in the White Fang" thing, they are pretty much setting the team up for some explosive revelation and Adam is exactly the kind of character who would deliver it. Killiing people definitely goes against Ruby's hero code and I doubt Yang would be particularly good with that either. Weiss would be especially upset for a variety of reasons, even more upset if Blake played a part in the death of someone she cared about.