Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20131225134740/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140310005344

Blake's always been an interesting one to me... I just cannot find a reason for Blake's sustained allegiance to the White Fang (four years worth) following the change in regime. Okay sure the first two or three years may not have been too intensive in terms of what the White Fang asked (no "great" infamous leader has ever been so callous as to expect immediate obedience) but at the end of the day Blake clearly stayed loyal to the White Fang even with knowing about the kidnapping, assassinations, heists and (presumably) mass murder and at the end of the day something as "small scale" as say vandalism of a corner shop still seems like something that goes completely against her ideals.

The main reason her past motivations are an anomaly to me is that one phrase she said to Weiss: "There's no such thing as pure evil." She does not believe that even the White Fang, whom she recognises as being murderous and a danger to society can be classifiable as "pure evil". That means that the usual idea that most reluctant bad guys use of "I only killed those that deserve it." cannot be used here, since there is no way Blake could believe anybody is deserving of death (or even judgment)... and yet she still willingly went along with White Fang plots...

Now her reaction to Adam on the train seems to be genuine shock and altruism. She does care for whoever is on the train (presumably human crew members). That one reaction in itself could be used to form the basis that, perhaps she, along with many other White Fang loyalists who owe their lives to the old regime (remember she was "born" into the White Fang) were actually working slightly against the new regime and were in fact saving the humans they were expected to kill whilst still accomplishing their objective. Blake would therefore be taken aback when Adam jumped the gun and went straight to the setting of the charges. The problem with that theory is that Adam has been labelled as the master to Blake's apprentice. Meaning that it's highly likely that the train heist wasn't their first instance of a mission and so, unless Adam's tendencies changed rapidly (which would logically lead to Blake wanting to "save Adam" rather than abandon him since, once again she is of the belief that everyone is at least partially good).

Another theory that had crossed my mind was that perhaps the plan was to steal the dust, and not to destroy it. This would mean that Adam was in fact the one betraying the White Fang, he did not care for the the crew, however Adam was smart enough to realise the dangers of handing that much dust over to the White Fang. His own personal bargaining came down to him destroying the dust, the SDC (and it's connected, presumably human-centric organisations) still do not recieve such a large quantity (the massive blow to the SDC dealt as planned) and yet the White Fang do not gain enough dust to arm a small army. He could easily get away with saying that shit just went wrong (they were using dust/gunpowder within close proximity of highly volatile and reactive substances (more dust) after all). Blake was sickened by Adam's lack of care and, with that, went her last reason to remain loyal: her own trainer had committed a sin far greater than anything the White Fang had ever even asked of her.

Of course the most obvious, most intriguing and as of right now actually the most believable conclusion is also the simplest: She wanted to, she enjoyed it. The only reason I don't think that will turn out to be true is the simple fact that she is amongst the four main protagonists. When that comes out (that she killed human because she desired to) I don't see a way back for Team RWBY. I don't see Weiss forgiving that. I don't see Yang being willing to associate with a murderer. I don't see Ruby, whom is actively fighting for all things good in the world ever being able to even look at Blake again if that were to be a major revelation. Honestly we don't even actually know exactly how much Ruby (and by Volume 2, how much Yang, Weiss and possibly JNPR) have been told by Blake. There has yet to be a moment in which Blake has actively admitted to participation in the White Fang activities following the leadership shift. All we know that they know as of right now is that Blake used to be part of the White Fang and that they know she's not anymore, doesn't necessarily mean that Blake mentioned exactly WHEN she left... Would they actually forgive her if they knew everything about her past? Are they all just happier to believe that Blake left the White Fang five years ago rather than the twelve months ago that is actually truth?

Well I've written enough... That's probably not even half of what's going through my head for that one miniscule topic... As you can see the whole thing heavily intrigues me to the point where I'm overthinking and overanalysing every possible aspect. So yeah, Blake's motivations... Crazy subject for me.