Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24198837-20140421023639/@comment-24198837-20140422224921

Okay, my thoughts (again):

On Yang, I basically agree with Lucky Bullet. Yang has the best track record out of all the students (is undefeated) and demonstrates a very competent control of her weapons, aura, and semblance, while everyone else except Pyrrha demonstrates mastery of, at most, two.

In terms of Roman: I always figured that he laughed at Sun because he's insane like that. This is the same guy who shot a 15-year-old (adorable) girl for shouting "Hey!".

I also disagree wholeheartedly on the idea that Ruby and Nora together couldn't beat Torchwick. I mean, if Ruby wasn't so nice (And followed basic sniper knowledge), she could have splattered Roman's brains all over his airship before anyone even heard the crack of the rifle, and Roman had a chance to activate his aura. Blake could've stabbed him, but that's a (somewhat) recoverable injury, and even then she's surrounded by baddies and minigun-toting airships. In a two-on-two fight, I would say that it's impossible (even for Roman) to doge an HCSS and Magnhild at the same time, from different angles. If he blocks one, the other hits him. If he manages to doge them both somehow, Nora and/or Ruby could easily shoot him. And even then, they don't have to kill/K.O. him. All they have to do is force him to retreat, and they win. Knowing Roman, he wouldn't stick around after seeing Ruby or Nora do anything, really. He has a track record of running away after Ruby wastes his goons, and I don't even want to know what Nora could do. It's also worth noting that Torchwick is afraid of Ruby. While he looked Sun in the eyes and fought him fair after Sun beat a far larger amount of likely higher skilled warriors than Ruby did in Episode 1, he ran from Ruby after seeing her beat just three guys (not counting the guy she tackled out of the window so hard it made him disappear). Blake threatened to slit his throat, and what did he do? Proceed to beat her over the head with his cane. Ruby showed both restraint and mercy when fighting the baddies in Episode 1 and Torchwick no-doubt noticed this, yet he still ran to Cinder. When he had the chance to put either Sun or Ruby out of the fight in Episode 16, he chose to shoot Ruby (Who hadn't even engaged in combat yet!), instead of the guy who just shot him multiple times with a shotgun, and that speaks volumes.

With the names, I always assumed that Faunus were a different species, not a different race. It all hinges on that, really.

Many assumptions have to be made about Blake's character. I mean, she's quiet and reads books, and there's no doubt that she's smart. Ironically though, the ones that we see staying up late hours studying and talking to teachers (Smart-student stuff) are Ruby and Weiss, not Blake; And I highly doubt that's because she just remembers everything that's tought in class. It could even be said (And this isn't my personal opinion, but it's a logical conclusion) that she only knew the Faunus history she explained in class because she's a Faunus and it's her heritige. Ask her a similar question about purely Human history and she may come up clueless. I doubt that this is the case, but it is a possibility. Also, Blake couldn't manipulate, and certianly couldn't interrogate people. I mean, she ran away because Weiss has an (understandable and completely logical) hatred of the White Fang. Imagine Blake trying to deal with someone arrogent and illogical. Her head may just explode. While she is quite smart, she's much too emotional if pushed in the right places, and if Weiss, of all people, can do it, anyone can. All you have to do is call the White Fang, who is a bunch of terrorists, a bunch of terrorists, and you've sucessfully broken all of Blake's mental restraint.