Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-26018514-20170913163439

KingFubuki92 wrote:

...Unless she ran off without their approval like Blake did to Kali and Ghira. Since they wanted her to blend in with humans, it seems like they would be aimed in the opposite direction of the WF, wanting cohabitation with Humans rather than Bloodshed. So if she wanted to join, I doubt they'd be okay with it, meaning she either is an Orphan from the Mine Collapse and Joined the WF out of hatred for Mantle/Atlas and nowhere else to go, or she ran off on her own without her parents approval and Joined the WF out of regret for disparaging Faunus while at Atlas, anger at humans for doing to begin with upon realizing how severe the discrimination is, and there being nowhere else for her to go. I say nowhere else in this case cause, well, she assaulted 3 bitches. Bitches or not she could still have been expelled, especially with her Faunus nature apparent now, and I doubt she was wanting to work at the mines. I'm not sure why you're making my point for me.... a runaway is no longer a parents financial responsibility, and that is my entire point... which your reaffirmed in your post...

Blake has not been shown to have had a day job, and is on another level from typical WF goons, so is Ilia, thus we can infer they are a more "elite" lifer class, kept in a militaristic training lifestyle that also indoctrinates them like IRL Terrorist organizations,  that Tucson owned a bookstore is incidental, he also predates any terrorist activities that create a call for such a program within the WF as they only really got there around 5 years ago, and that he thought he could be safe there indicates the WF were not involved in the business enough he believed it would take awhile to find him.