Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140815002519/@comment-25308133-20140818142531

The Devil's Advocate WP wrote: It is not about being ashamed or being embarassed about being a Faunus. Blake just has good reason to want to avoid the consequences of being a Faunus. Her concealing her Faunus identity does not imply she has some sort of self-loathing, but just that she wants to be treated equally. A person who was black who passes for white is not necessarily ashamed of his or her heritage, but will still look to reap the benefits of not being associated with others of the same race. Similar to how Jews would often adopt more common Gentile names to advance themselves in business and society. It allows them to enjoy certain privileges they would otherwise be denied. I can certainly get behind this. I definitely don't think Blake is ashamed of being a faunus, and she herself may believe on the surface that the above argument is why she's doing it. But the other argument has weight as well, she may not be ashamed of being a faunus, but rather ashamed of what she did while championing faunus rights, ie the terrorist actions she committed. She may very well be avoiding discrimination, and that's her surface excuse, followed by the rationalization to herself that she won't be recognized for her past criminal acts like this. But I think at it's core her bow is running away from her past actions for her own sake and not anyone else's. She's ashamed of what she became and is trying to run and hide from that. Blake is still a teenager, still growing and working out who she is. I certainly hope, as a previous poster mentioned, that her accepting who she is and all the past that comes with that realization is a character arc Blake goes through at some point.

As a side note, I was reading the wiki entry on Sun and it theorizes that Sun's recognizing of Blake's species is a power unique to him, since the character he's based on had the ability to see through disguises. While that's certainly possible, the fact the Blake doesn't seem to show any surprise that he knows nor any attempt to deny it implies to me that she's aware that any faunus that looks at her closely will figure it out immediately.