Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130805035011/@comment-10390252-20131106151436

That's a good question, Zolnir; it would have been an interesting symbolic moment if, at the end of the Black Trailer, Blake had taken off her mask and thrown it away, symbolising her break with White Fang.

The fact that she wasn't wearing a mask thus suggests one of two things:

1) She hadn't been fully inducted yet (Monty did say that Blake was Adam's 'apprentice', maybe WF recruits need to go through some kind of indoctrination/training before they take the Oath?)

2) There is something about Blake specifically that means she doesn't need that symbol.

Back when the Red Trailer came out, I speculated that all four main characters would be 'princesses' - someone of great symbolic importance to their particular sub-group of the people on the RWBY world. That's clearly true of Weiss and might be true of Ruby too. I wonder if it's true of Blake? Is she the last descendent of her tribe's most famous leader or something?