something that’s been bothering me the more i think about it, and which i think a lot of the fandom just… glossed over, because eh, they’re the good guys, we as viewers know that robyn of locksley is a hero, and it all turned out ok so what even is ironwood moaning about, right?… is just how horrific of a risk blake and yang were taking–which they absolutely had no right to–when they spilled the beans about the amity project to robyn and, by extension, her people… and literally anyone who might have been around them, or listening to them, or tapped into their communications.

they had no way of knowing that robyn and her huntresses were who they said they were. and they had no reason to trust her. they weren’t even on the transport when ruby, penny, clover, and qrow interacted with her. all they had to go on was blake’s gut feeling, which came from nowhere, and had no real foundation.

frankly, i would’ve found it more convincing coming from ruby.

and blake’s gut feeling wouldn’t have done shit if robyn’s group had been infiltrated–or if their communications were being monitored. or if they were being watched.

they were damn fucking lucky that the wrong people didn’t get their hands on that information as a direct result of blake and yang’s actions that night. and ironwood had every reason to be pissed about it and no longer trust them.

the right hing to do, if blake’s reservations really ran as deep as we’re supposed to believe, would’ve been to bring those concerns up at the time–and, in the event that they weren’t listened to and she decided this wasn’t a mission she was willing to follow through, walk away. she had that option! there was no gun to her head, metaphorical or otherwise. she wasn’t an ace op, she wasn’t one of ironwood’s soldiers. she could have opted out of the mission entirely.

or, if she didn’t start feeling those concerns until that moment when she voiced them (which… i would have liked to actually see reflected in her thoughts to that point but whatever), do literally anything other than give absolutely critical information to someone she had no way of knowing a) wasn’t a plant, b) didn’t have a salem-loyal imposter in her group of huntresses, and c) had any form of secure communications to ensure that this informations tayed out of the hands of salem’s allies, when they knew salem’s people were in mantle at that exact moment.

it was reckless. it was stupid. and, in hindsight, it’s kind of infuriating to me that neither she nor yang could own up, even the slightest bit, to the fact that they’d made a mistake which they were incredibly lucky didn’t blow up in all their faces.

