#to note: im planning to rewatch the first 4 seasons with my sister soon

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I simply think it would be far more interesting if instead of racism, blake originally was aligned with the antagonists of rwby after being manipulated into it by Adam.

Imagine if she had no one at all, she was from a low income family and maybe faunus tend to live in tight knit communities but her parents wanted to travel more and they died in a Grimm attack somewhere. So Blake, completely alone, latches onto the first person who helps her. A teenage boy who is leading a gang of kids. Someone also suffering from Grimm. But he hears of people learning to control them and rather than wanting to wipe out Grimm he thinks the superior option is finding a way to control them. Turn them into attack dogs. All the kids in his gang want is that safety, with Grimm at their fingertips they'd be powerful. Terrifying.

Blake gets to see Adam devolve as she falls for him and he starts becoming worse, more violent, more corrupted the longer they spend around the Grimm. Rather than wanting safety and security for those he loves he starts to reveal in the fear he brings to others when he incites chaos. The train explosion isn't just Blake's final straw, it's the first real opportunity she has to escape in a way that makes it harder for Adam to actually find her.

It makes Blake's shame and self loathing more sensible, it makes it clear why there isn't an argument to be made about whether Adam was doing something bad.