#day 48932842 of having this discourse again but idc lol

[dragynkeep]

i hate the excuse of "weiss & blake's colours now being blue & purple are signs they're healing from their trauma!" cause even when you look at the uses of these colours in characters connected to their girl's specific traumas, it's the exact opposite.

weiss is in a majority blue & grey in v4 because you could infer those are jacques colours, he's shown in stark white & blue & in the schnee family portrait, the blue is most prominent on the schneeblings when they're under his control as children. by time we see weiss & winter as adults in their original outfits, that blue is nominal, almost gone as they are out of jacques grasp.

so why is weiss now in the most amount of blue she's been in throughout the entire show, in the most princess like, uncomfortable & inconvenient outfit when she's supposed to be a fully fledged huntress, no longer relying on her wealth & breaking free of jacques completely?

& with blake it's even worse because black isn't adam's colour: red is. his name is literally red earth. if we want to take it that blake's colour has been adam's influence over her, then her outfit should've been drenched in red as that's also the colour associated with the "bad" white fang.

but then we get to the later volumes once adam is dead & she's being defined by white & purple, all her black is nominal or just outright gone & it doesn't make sense because black was her colour. there was no negative connotation with black considering it's also the main colour her mother wears. we can't even say that she's wearing more purple + white to evoke ghira because these are the volumes she's been most politically quiet, especially for her people. all her fighting for the faunus was done in v2 & v5, when she was in black.

the most irritating point of this defense is that if these girls, this world was going to be so defined by colour, keeping them in that colour should probably be first & foremost. all the "justifications" can be made to the high heavens but if the characters named white snow & black flower aren't in white & black, then clearly some of the messaging has been lost in translation. especially when red rose still manages to remain red despite going through just as much trauma.

we don't talk about yellow dragon. she's been a lost cause since day one when they decided yellow actually meant brown.