Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161120163758/@comment-27082610-20161128210911

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote:

1) Anyone who knows anything about diplomacy knows that it isn't all about diplomatic skills. Sometimes it is about gestures and symbolism. Jaques is already exploiting the fact a Schnee was present in Vale fighting alongside everyone else. Why wouldn't he try to use her as a tool in any external negotiations with the other Kingdoms?

2) I think you are confusing resignation and hopelessness with submission. Beacon was overrun, Blake ran off, and Yang got disarmed. Persuading her to come with him would be a hell of a lot easier under those circumstances and she has nothing at the moment that would give her reason to leave.

3) All they need is someone who met Ruby or any of the remaining members of JNPR to have heard about some general destination or objective to know they were heading to Mistral. That is presuming they don't already know since it wasn't as if she was inconspicuously sneaking off under the cover of night. She also left a note and we don't know if she gave some hint as to what her plans were in that message.

4) We know she is going to be there and meeting with her family in the upcoming episode. How long do you really expect them to drag that out?

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) That's my point exactly. 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) Someone who met a random group of teenagers six-eight months previously during the most hectic period in recent history? Plus I don't see why she'd leave any clues behind, she has to know her father well enough to know that he'd come after her the first chance he got.

4) Long enough that it's believable that she's worked through anything by being there. Her going straight from meeting up with her parents to hopping onto a ship to People Who I Know Want Me Dead HQ breaks my suspension of disbelief.

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.