Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160225225013/@comment-5055509-20160308012413

MetallicArcher wrote:
 * Drops two cents about Black Sun.*

I never saw it as "insta love" the moment they made eye contact. I always interpreted it (since before I got behind the ship) as:

V1

Sun: *winks at Blake to let her now that "Hey fellow faunus I can tell you are hiding you identity and that's cool. If you are ever looking for someone who both knows your secret and won't judge for it, I'm here."*

Sun: *hanging out on the campus because he arrived before the rest of his team for whatever reason* *Oh, look, that's the girl from earlier. She is crying. It seems to be something about her faunus identity. Since I'm not an asshole I'm going to see if I can cheer her up.* *Says something positive about her being a faunus.*

Sun: *She seems to be in distress and have nowhere to go. Since I'm not an asshole I'm going to see to spend time with her to make sure she is ok.*

Blake: *Since he seems to be selflessly worried about me I will share a tiny bit of what I'm going through with him to see if it makes me feel better.*

Sun: *tags along Blake to make sure she doesn't bite more than she can chew and doesn't get hurt*

Sun: *stays with Blake until he is sure things are sorted out with her team and can go back with them*

V2

Sun: *This Blake girl seems really cool. I kinda have a crush on her. I would like to get to know her more and see if we can develop a serious relationship. *

Sun: *She is going to go get in a dangerous situation with the WF and Torchwick again. Since I care about her I will go with her to make sure she is ok.*

Blake: *omg Sun after all the stuff we have shared you don't understand how overwhelmed I am by this situation?*

Sun: *clearly this is something I don't know how to help her with. I will trust it upon her team*

Sun: *dances with Blake once she is free and wants to dance with him* *clearly doesn't make it about him even after Yang leaves and takes Blake to hang out with other people attending.*

Sun: *she is going to keep at her thing but she will also be with her team and a responsible adult so I will just say goodbye to her and not worry.*

V3

Sun: *clearly still has a thing for Blake*

Blake: *clearly has spent time with at least SN. Enough to get to know Neptune's phobia. Also clearly is aware of Sun's feelings and at leats doesn't react negatively to them*

Sun: *I'm not on her inmediate vicinity a couple of days and she goes fight the WF on her own and gets stabbed in the stomach?* *Is clearly preocupied to get Blake to safety.*

Sun: *and now she is running away from the safe zone*

Sun: *Laura voice* "Worst Crush Ever." ___

We could have had a tad bit more of BlackSun in V3. Maybe if after the Yang thing, RWB had met up with SSSN and JNPR instead of only JNPR. Or if Sun would have arrived after Yang got her arm chopped off and helped Blake run away.

But with everything else that was going on? I say they did an enough job to let it clear BlackSun still has hope in its future. I pretty much agree with your assessment, but there's two major problems as it stands. For starters, the buildup they were given is so friggin' forced, the whole Dulcinea Effect as it were. "Hey I just met this girl but NOW I'M GONNA RISK MY LIFE FOR HER I INSTANTLY LOVE HER!". And to be fair, it's nothing more than a crush at the beginning, obviously, but they are just so obviously paired for the express purpose of getting together, and that's what I think a lot of people have problem with, including myself. The second problem is just as you said, ''" clearly has spent time with at least SN. Enough to get to know Neptune's phobia.". We have to INFER that. That's no way to build a ship and have us care. The same thing was done in Dragon Ball Z with the excuse that Toryima couldn't write romance. Which is fine, that's fine, but as a result, almost no one cared about either primary relationship. ''



''On the flipside there's Blake and Yang. They obviously aren't an item or hadn't discussed being an item, but they clearly very much care about each other and spend lots of onscreen time together. I think anyone would agree that if they got together, it wouldn't be out of left field, just like if either was a man (not implying that anyone is not shipping them just because they're f/f). As it stands, the series has only really just started, so it's really impossible to see what's gonna happen, or how the pacing of any relationship will look like once the whole series comes together, but as it stands, I hope that Blake's dance with Yang was foreshadowing of who she would choose first.''

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