Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141003002601/@comment-11188061-20141003013944

Sigh.

Okay, let me go through their motives one at a time.

1) Ruby - To become a hero and great Huntress like her mother, and genuinely wants to protects people's lives. A pure motive, but on the other hand, way too young to have any underlying motives until later on.

2) Yang - Her given reason is true. But her true reason is that she wants to find her mother, and that she's using this position as a Huntress to gain permission to travel anywhere she wants to continue her search. The difference here is that while Ruby's end point is to become a Huntress, Yang is using it as a stepping stone to reach her real goal of finding her mother. She feels guilty wants Oobleck raised the question.

3) Weiss - Again, a real reason. Buther true reason is to prove her own worth and individuality, to be Weiss instead of Schnee, and to seek freedom from the history, name and legacy that is the Schnee that will weigh down on her back forever. She feels guilty, because she wants to be beyond a Schnee, and she believes that it's in a way betraying her family.

4) Blake - Also a true reason. But the inequality she herself thought that the inequality and corruption she wants to fix is something impossible (fix Faunu-Human relationship and be treated as any other), because it is a ridiculously grand dream and 'she doesn't believe in fairy tales'. The one she truly wishes to fix is the White Fang - her family and home, because of the terrible treatment they've endured for many years, and the corruption that changed what it was now.

But because she never actually believes that she can do it, therefore she never really thinks about it (but negative thoughts and impossibility to achieve those feats) and feels guilty. Oobleck's words is like a needle right through the heart: If you dream so, then why don't you do so?