Talk:Blake Belladonna/@comment-174.94.28.192-20151025185153/@comment-4010415-20151028231223

Why does everyone assume that, because she hides her cat ears, she's actually ashamed or something?

I honestly believe the reason she gave for why she hides her cat ears.

Look at it this way... if she hadn't been hiding her cat ears in volume 1, Weiss would've known from the start that she was a Faunus and would've given her problems for it because Weiss didn't trust Faunus in general. Don't say "No, she just didn't like the White Fang." She outright said "You want to know why I despise the White Fang? Why I don't particularly trust the Faunus?" She doesn't trust Faunus in general because you never know which ones are members of the White Fang when they aren't wearing a mask.

Anyway... Knowing that Blake is a Faunus likely would've led to Weiss not bothering to get to know her. All she would see when she would look at Blake would be "Faunus girl." And then, when she finally found out that Blake was a member of the White Fang, I think things would've played out differently.

But because Weiss thought Blake was a Human, her observations of Blake were not clouded and limited by the label "Faunus girl." She actually got to know who Blake is as a person, not as a Faunus or a Human, a person. The reason she reconsidered her view while searching for Blake is because she realized that Blake was not the kind of person she expected a White Fang member (former or otherwise) to be. She actually got to know WHO she is, not WHAT she is.

Blake wants people to be able to look at her and see her with thoughts and labels like: quiet, smart, bookworm, sometimes solemn but can have fun and be cheerful too, etc. She fears that, if she doesn't hide her cat ears, most people will look at her with just: Faunus girl.

She wants people to take the time to see her as who she is as a person, instead of taking one quick glance at her and just seeing her as what species she is.