Char Frolen

@AgentEagleIsGone Depends, you’d have to alter her back story. Abe is right however, if you do too much she won’t be Blake. The Best you can do is justify her changes, and that starts with her backstory.
            
            Take the traits you want to instill in her, and craft an explanation as to why she is the way she is. You don’t need to show her back story to the audience. In fact, keep it to yourself and use it to guide her writing.
            
            It also depends on what kind of story you’re planning to tell with her.

@FrolenZan And people wonder why I use Adam to address the racism subplot.

@AgentEagleIsGone Anytime. I’ll leave you with this. Ghira doesn’t necessarily need to die for Blake to learn a lesson, but it’s more plot significance and tragic for the story. Blake is literally the only character in team RWBY who’s never suffered. She is so spoiled that she’s taken for granted how blessed she is. 
            
            Ruby and Yang lost Summer, and Yang had to practically raise Ruby when her father was broken. Yang was abandoned by Raven. Weiss came from a household so toxic her own father treats his family like a monetary asset, Her mother a neglectful drunk, her sister left her to join the military, and her brother is left to the mercy of her Father. Nora and Ren are Orphans, Pyrrha has had her life stolen by publicity and celebrity life, and Jaune had to break away from his family because they had no hope in him (mind you this is speculation, but he was desperate enough to run away because he desperately wanted to achieve his dream). While his choices weren’t smart, his desire to help all people is what endears him to so many fans.
            
            What the hell did Blake suffer through that wasn’t her own choice. Both her parents are alive, they own a mansion in a tropical island, her father is the chieftain, the rebel group she joined, to support Faunus rights of course, but her parents had that handled. Stayed when they became extreme against her parents warnings. Ran away when things started getting too real. Yet constantly berates the Fang who actually suffered, and scolds the humans who’ve been hurt by the fang.

@FrolenZan I know, right?

@farmerabe that’s ultimately what angers me about bumblebee. That just because they’re lesbians is all the reason to put them together. That girls just can’t be friends without major sexual tension, or that Lesbian or not a women is more than just their sexuality.

@FrolenZan Again, well said.
            
            It's like being the same gender somehow makes a relationship good, despite its many, MANY flaws these days...

@FrolenZan Yep.
            
            Something needs to shatter this viewpoint, and while Ghira's death is not required, it DOES take a pretty big sledgehammer to Blake's worldview.

@farmerabe Like we stated before, Ghiras death isn't necessary, but it's a perfect catalyst to shift Blake's moronic sense of thinking. She's never suffered significant lost, she constantly runs away from her problems, and when her stance is questioned, it's F everybody else I'm right you're wrong. 
            
            For goodness sake, she called the white fang misguided despite all the terrorist attacks. Not because she cares about the faunus, but because admitting that the white fang are monsters, is admitting that she as an ex fang was just as much a monster as well.

@FrolenZan Well said, man.