User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: The motivation of a Huntress/@comment-5217560-20141005004501

Goodness, awesome job again!! Ruby is the hope that keeps on shining bright!

However, I think I'll have to disagree with you on a couple of things, or at the most, pick your brain a bit. Starting with Blake. In all honesty, she is the epitome of self sacrifice for the cause. I'll also use her obession with finding Roman as an example. She isolated herself from her friends, worked herself tireless, and drove herself almost to madness trying to find ways to stop him. Her whole reason for being who she is, is to stop all the injustice in the world. She just lacks direction, which Oobleck realizes. Unlike Ruby, Blake, having been exposed to the world, understands the reality of her choices and the obstacles that will come their way on the path of becoming a monster fighter. I think she can accept that her ideas are wrong. Look at her conversation with Ruby regarding justice, her exchange with Weiss, regarding honesty, and her most recent intimate moment with Yang, regarding rationality. It isn't that she can't accept that she's wrong, it's just that prior to meeting her teammates, she hasn't encountered other perceptions that were similar to her goals, just different in the way to getting them. In the end, it isn't her motivation that I think is lacking, it's what she plans to do with said motivations. She's obviously got the drive, now about the map...

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Huntsmen. Their sworn duty is to protect humanity. They fight monsters and protect the kingdoms. That's their Job. But does it need to be what drives them? The other motivations you've pointed of course all have possibilities of being dangerous, and in this field, I agree, selflessness needs to be at the top of one's list. BUT. What if it isn't? Look at Port. I'm pretty sure he's a huntsman for the glory and the bravado of it. At least, that's what we've been shown so far. Let me bring up Cardin. Probably a bad example seeing as how he's a terrible person anyway, but what if there are others in the show like him? Except, they are professional huntsmen? What I'm trying to say is, like in Hunter X Hunter, whatever motivations that other characters may have, they may not always have to be for the greater good. But that doesn't stop them from doing their job as effectively as they can.