Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-14909251-20170520160111

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: I know they're not going to be identical.

My point is, they have extremely different backstories. And that's all we really know about Sienna, while with Ghira his personality isn't much like Bagheera's either (not that characters have personalities that are the same as their allusions).

So the similarities are next-to-none, and even "symbolically", the similarities are as thin as a stick. Really, read what you just said. You're basically saying:

-Ghira: Freed from human captivity = Ex-Leader of an anti-racial oppresion group.

-Khan: Hates humans.

The former is far from similar, and the latter is the only similarity between Shere and Sienna that there could possibly be. When you frame Ghira that way it does look less similar, but it is also framing it in a way biased towards them not being similar. Ghira led a group that advocates for the freedom of animal people, who literally live in a Menagerie. Khan's similarities extend towards him being the new leader. Although we don't yet know enough about either to figure exactly how similar they are, it is enough to make a reasonable case. I do think the Faunus War ended right around the time the members of RWBY were born and Ghira could have very well fought in the war in that case, making the comparison much stronger.