Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4403232-20140411230237/@comment-3257939-20140611215615

Velvet's case is harder. She is a badass unlike Jaune who can't defeat his own bullies, I'm sure Velvet could wipe the floor with Cardin but she can't because she must have her own reasons. I already shared my idea about why: Probably because since she's a faunus, she doesn't want to stain the faunus anymore, after all, knowing how bully works, if she does something to Cardin then people would hate the faunus even more and treat Velvet even worse.

If Cardin bullies a Faunus no one cares, but if that Faunus bullies someone then everyone defends the human and treat the faunus like scum, that's how bullying works.