Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161120163758/@comment-26018514-20161129014114

Arkantos95 wrote: The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote:

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3) ... 4) ... 5) To be clear, at this point we are only really discussing whether she would be so cowardly as to avoid going to Mistral with Sun simply because that is apparently where they have their base. 1) I think you're overestimating Jacques' opinion of his daughter and the fact that he's probably going to want to keep her where she can be controlled, i.e. Atlas.

2) ... She has no reason to leave, and unless something completely unprecedented happens, she won't get one. Even the highly probable attack on the charity event wouldn't be an actual reason unless it somehow screws over Atlas worse than Vale was after the fall of Beacon.

3) ... 4) ... 5) Is it really cowardice to not go up against the WF where they're strongest? Where their leader and at least one of their top operatives who already handed Blake her ass without breaking a sweat are most likely to be? Because that would be uncharacteristically rash and foolish for Blake. 1. I think you're confused about what a "tool" is... you only use it for what you know it is useful for, and Weiss has yet to prove any talent at diplomacy... As Arkantos said, he's also trying to control her.

2. As Arkantos said... that differerence doesn't change the situation, while I disagree about the attack on the Charity(having potential as a catalyst for her journey to Mistral or elsewhere), I think you underestimate how much Weiss's family IS a plot piece to resolve... if she doesn't resolve most of her issues with most of them now, she'll have to return to Atlas later, and if RT plans to destroy Atlas before she returns I'd prefer we get to see its sights and culture now rather than only post-apocalyptic.

3. While I agree they should know Ruby is traveling to get to Mistral, that shouldn't really help them. Remember Taiyang was going to go bring her back/stop her, but they have no indication Ruby made it there, nor which part of Mistral is their goal... these are cities larger than IRL countries, not places you go see everything in a day, even if they got there 4 months before Ruby, they've no indication she'll get there or that they will stop her before she goes back home or elsewhere, thus their only reason for going now would be to follow her path to ensure she makes it... but Yang shouldn't be anywhere close to that combat ready and Taiyang should have a similar fighting style, meaning they need the firepower to engage everything at close-quarters without worrying about Yang being overwhelmed.

4. Agreed with Arkantos, and I expect her plan was to go from there to Vacuo, not Mistral, then possibly back to Atlas or Vale to combat the WF, but not attacking their HQ unless she thinks she can take out the top boss.

5. No, the question is if Blake is still an idealist(which she said she was disabused of by the WF) or a realist, she should not expect to be successful in any solo campaign against the WF leadership, she may not even want to kill all of them.

We know Adam will likely need to be killed to get her life back to normal, but she needs to know more about what other WF want her dead, and which merely think she betrayed them. She has on multiple occasions proved she does not think she can kill Adam, with or without help, so she either needs intense training or to recruit someone she thinks can kill him, or to put him up against enemies she thinks can kill him for her.

This is all assuming she isn't of the mindset that she cannot kill him because she loves him(like family), and she wouldn't rather keep running for now until he loses interest or dies of other causes.