Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171201215836/@comment-27648673-20171205014809

Arkantos95 wrote: So Ilia is basically just a female Adam now, except worse in some ways.

1) She has an established reason to be against what the Albains are doing (losing her own parents). This makes her a hypocrite on top of her other negative descriptors.

2) It's entirely possible Blake never knew about her feelings, making Ilia holdign Blake responsible for them even more idiotic and childish than what Adam does. I'm sorry, I need a moment to vomit.

1 - Her parents were killed in a dust mine in Mantle. Corsac, Fennec, and the White Fang have nothing to do with that. Her entire motivation for joining the White Fang was because her parents were discriminated and mistreated (along with every other Faunus) into poorly paying and laborous jobs, and the heartless and unempathetic reaction from her "friends" at her Atlas Prep School. I have no idea how you gleaned the notion that the Albains are somehow involved in her parents' deaths.

2 - It's obvious that Blake didn't know. Ilia "held Blake responsible" because she was using her affection as an example of something Blake didn't know about Ilia. She was enforcing the idea that Blake didn't know her as well as she thought she did, after Blake said "this isn't you!" She wasn't saying "You should've known I was in love with you, but you didn't and now you'll pay!" She's still been trying to warn and protect Blake, but in the end, her personal mission takes higher priority.

'''Ilia is not doing what she does out of spite. Her primary goal is revenge due to racial discrimination, not unrequited love.'''