Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-366087-20170520171654/@comment-366087-20170523041415

If it is not a part of their Narrative Journey, that which is the backbone of the story, then it does not count.

In Blake's case, her Narrative Journey states she was never a villain. Her PAST included being part of the White Fang, which started as a protest group. However, the leadership changed and so did the aims of the group. She found she could no longer be a part of them and parted ways. We first see her in the Black Trailer on her last mission raiding a train where she found she could not be a party to killing the innocent crew and she parted ways with the Fang.

Her case is that she joined the White Fang with a righteous conviction and had to wake up to the fact that she was part of something she did not want to be a part of. Further aided by the fact the group *changed* during her association with it.

That is NOT an "Ex-Villain", even if in-universe she might have been labeled that by other characters, the Narrative being chronicled by the creatives is she never truly was.