ozpositivity:

One thing I’d like to point out is that it says Hazel believes the choice wasn’t hers (Gretchen’s) to make but then it also says that he believes Ozpin gave her the choice to throw her life away. I…I don’t think it works like that, buddy. Also, she was actually his twin? Not his younger sibling with several years between them? By the time students decide to go to Beacon, they already have prior school experience and training to be a hunter. Which is a choice they typically make. Then, they decide to go to Beacon. Again, another choice they make. And we all know Ozpin is not the type of person to force his students, or anyone, to do anything they wouldn’t want to do. tigerstripedmoon: undeadwicchan: Hazel’s bio. To answer your questions Hazel. Huntsman make quite the difference in protecting Remnant… a lot actually. Biggest takeaway here: Gretchen wasn’t his little sister. She was his twin. Which is both much worse (he’s infantilizing someone his own age), and much worse (she was his TWIN). Also also, she was his twin. Yeah, some twins like to say they’re the older one, but they never mean it seriously. I have cousins that are twins, but the elder of the two never refers to his brother as his “little brother”. There’s, like, ten minutes max between the two. Why is he infantilizing someone who was his exact age? I was certainly under the impression she was years younger than him. Perhaps he was always like this and that’s what drove Gretchen to want to go to Beacon and become a hunter. To prove she wasn’t a baby to her brother and make him proud.

Speaking from personal experience, not as a twin but as a sibling - my sister always liked to infantilize me.

I’m almost 3 years older than her.

Why was she like that? She was bigger, stronger, taller, and looked physically older than me (as in she was mistaken for 22 at 16 and I was mistaken for 15 at 19). Plus she was more sociable and extroverted whereas I wasn’t. I was also mistaken for stupid or ignorant due to my lack of a social life and being quiet.

After years of all this - she just internalized the concept that she was “older”, acted like she was my older sister instead of the other way around - this even includes her thinking I was so naive and ignorant about “adult things” that is one day come home pregnant because I clearly must not know what contraceptives are. And this is after I schooled her on the subject matter to prove I knew more than her.

My point to all this is: It’s less about chronological age and more how people treat them and how they treat each other. Like my sister I’ve seen younger siblings treat their older siblings like infants who are incapable of making thought out decisions on their own - believing they’re too stupid or ignorant to consider things properly.

Ultimately it’s just their own ego. Anyway, if younger siblings can do this to older siblings than surely a person can do it to their twin.

I think that given how Hazel talks about her like she’s a lot younger than him, that speaks volumes about how he sees himself - the big brother, the protector - and then oops she dies! He couldn’t protect her! Well if you already think so little of your sibling (or underestimate them) that you think they can’t make choices on their own, it’s easy to believe they got tricked into making the wrong choice.

Basically Hazel never saw his sister as her own person but rather as a thing to look after. The fact that she died means he failed to look after her. Thus he hates Ozpin because he can’t blame someone he infantalized so much and he won’t blame himself so instead he blames Oz.

I hope this all made sense, it’s kinda hard to explain. But anyway even if his sister was a lot younger than him, he still clearly never valued his sisters autonomy - if he did, he’d understand she was capable of making her own choices. Of course this all my own interpretation.