Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-5430952-20181103172633/@comment-25936766-20181110031137

ChishioKunrin wrote: 1. Nope, Aura was invented so the characters could pull off over the top fight scenes without dying when the writers don't want them to die. ...................Wait. Then why the entire lack of blood in almost the entirety of Vol.1-5? Not saying they should've added a whole river of blood or anything but, still.

BlizzardDragon wrote:

1) Not Necessary to worry about, as when Jinn came out, the snow stopped falling in mid air, meaning time is frozen right now for them.

2) Conceded on the anger part, but Oscar is the one who told them to call Jinn, as he knows what Ozpin was trying to do and told them to call her so it wouldn't work, meaning he gave them a reason not to trust Ozpin.

3) He looked angry and desperate to me, and there's the fact he moved in Oscar's body faster than Weiss or Blake could react too, and Ruby actually looked scared at that. He clearly was intending to charge her for the Relic if not outright tackle her.

4) The Feelings on Humanity part came after his rant on being betrayed, starting from a question from Ruby....He also uses this reasoning to justify not telling what Leonardo did....

5)  She's naturally still abit shellshocked over the idea that the mother she was looking for for so long, the woman her dad only said great things about, was nothing but a lie. Knowing Qrow has little baring since anyone can lie about who they are, and since Qrow is clearly one of Ozpin's followers, Yang would naturally be warry of him despite knowing him for so long.

6) To use an example....

7) For Weiss, well, she put it best...

8) Then look at Leo. He was so frightened of Salem he defected to her side, probably not helped by Ozpin not doing more than just asking for trust. Blizzard....I know you might be losing your cool, but, it'd be nice if you reduced the text on the quote boxes some more (yeah you went and edited it to make it shorter, which is good. Just saying). Makes it easier to scroll through and follow. If you need to chill, use this.

1) I meant before they called Jinn.

2) Hold it. If he knew everything Ozpin was thinking, why didn't he say anything earlier? He even has access to his memories, no? He could've mentally asked Ozpin if there was any danger, or checked to see if Ozpin knew if there were any. He could've also checked himself to see why Ozpin does what he does and try to explain it, at the very least.

This whole thing is Oscar's fault. The kid is useless.

3) Eh, rising your voice when desperate is normal, doesn't mean you're angry per se. I actually got a pic of right before he (failed to) catched Ruby, though I can't share it cause it would show up whenever someone tried to post a pic.

The speed at which he rushed at Ruby just proves how desperate he was to keep hidden whatever Jinn was going to show them. Considering Salem's involved, it's something very personal. Though at this point we can only wait and see (how lucky that the ep comes out tomorrow).

4) Yeah, basically, he doesn't tell everyone the full story all the time because after 5 gens. he feels that he can't trust everyone to handle such info without bad stuff happening because of it. If they fear Salem they can be easily manipulated, like Leo.

While it does imply that he doesn't have that much faith in mankind (still wondering why they keep using "Humanity", as if Faunus were not a thing), even without the "history of betrayals" part it makes sense.

Barely a year ago, Beacon fell and Vale got invaded by Grimm, with the CCT going down and Atlas being partially blamed for it. Now imagine if the people were told that the Headmaster of their local Huntsman Academy was actively helping a terrorist organization kill Mistral's own Huntsmen.

At that point, they would be wishing for panic. More realistically, there would be riots, and public trust in the government would crumble. That in itself will only lead to more internal fighting. Grimm, meanwhile, will just gather outside and get ready to swarm them like they did in Vale. Given how many Mistralian Huntsmen are dead or MIA, and normal mooks cannot deal with Grimm, they would be wrecked to ruins.

So yeah, on the whole picture his "not-so-big faith in humanity" makes him a bit of a liar in that regard. But at times, not trusting humanity that much is the most reasonable decision.

5) Yeah, no. At the end of the day she didn't know Raven beyond a vague idea of how she was based on Tai's shilling, which doesn't mean much because Yang knew she abandoned her for 17 years and the moment she found out how her Semblance worked, she knew Raven was not a part of her life simply because she didn't feel like it.

Meanwhile she's known Qrow since she was a little girl, she knows he's nothing like Raven, and thus she has no reason to distrust him, and her deal with Raven doesn't change shit about this because Qrow =/= Raven, and she knows it. Worst case scenario, she shouldn't distrust him enough to be perfectly ready to punch his face without giving him a chance to talk.

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6) The comparison fails when applied to this context. Qrow isn't working for Salem and Ozpin hasn't been confirmed to be plotting the Apocalypsis, so the "younger brother is now a gangsta" part fails, Qrow is still on the same side as Yang at the end of the day, with the only difference being that he isn't ranting and antagonizing Ozpin, instead choosing to at least be neutral about it for now.

7) I concede it here. I forgot how overly-emotional Weiss is below the surface.

8) You know, we never actually found out why Leo was so scared of Salem. It was a problem in V5 and it hasn't been fixed yet; we know he's afraid of her but we never see anything that implies why, he's afraid because he's afraid.

If they had bothered to at least show or tells us something that Salem did and Leo saw, it would've been great. But no, that's too much work, cowardly lion is cowardly and scaredy because he has to be. Reasons? Who needs them.