Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131022161224/@comment-11188061-20131024061748

Okay, let's do this one by one.

1) I concede that it is entirely possible that over a very long period of time, people may no longer come to see Faunus as part of a Grimm. They may have even completely forgotten about it because it was just too long a time ago - they don't even remember their own history.

This brings up some interesting issues, however:

- Note that the Faunu/Human War may be a recent thing, as we've discussed before. I would put it between 50 to at most 100 years before the current timeline, and likely the actual war could have happened as recent as just 10 years ago.

Say that this is just post war 10 years ago. In that case, even though peace has been achieved - though it's more like mutual concession, since the humans no longer has a strong advantage after their huge defeat, and the faunus were either inferior or reluctant to fight from the very beginning - racial tensions must be running sky high. It'll be a common occurance to see faunus being bullied terribly in the human populace, and likewise vice versa.

If we are to follow your theory, then it is impossible that the Faunu War happened this recently - this is assuming of course, that RWBY is ultimately for mature audiences, and to an extent follows real world logic. The simple reason being that 10 years is absolutely not enough to dilute the hatred between 2 races, and if the humans still remember the Faunus as being part of the Grimm (Note: according to your theory), then they will definitely use this insult.

It's like, how to say, the racial issue of black people. Just as black people cannot change the fact that their skin are well, black, the fact that the Faunus existed because of the Grimm cannot be changed. I simply cannot imagine humans not bringing it up as the main form of provocation, given that how the Grimm is a huge threat to people's lives even to this day. Even to this day our real life black people racial issue is still continuing, and does not look to be solved for at least another hundred years.

50 to 100 years, then it's possible that racial tensions have toned down to the point where moral viewpoints are being upheld more consistently and firmly. But it's still won't be enough for humans to stop seeing the Faunus as part-Grimm, and the main form of provocation is still the Faunus being Grimm. Just, imagine Cardin knowing this fact. Do you believe in your heart that he will tone down his insults and just call the faunus an animal? I may defend the guy from time to time, but there's no change to the fact that he's an asshole.

More than 100 years, a time where the real history may have been forgotten... then we have a problem. This is rather inconsistent to the feeling we got about the Faunu Wars being recent, so either the Faunu Wars really is a thing of the long, long past - which btw would set the Grimm Wars even further back, possibly 500 years at least, or the theory is somewhere flawed.

And unfortunately right now, I believe that this is the case. Sorry, Sorairo. Btw, this discussion has given me an interesting idea on the faunu-human relationship, so I may post a thread on it later on.

2) Well, the trick is in the mask/exoskeleton. When The Genius first introduced the Grimm as the Unit, and the Dust as the Unit Controller, the nobles automatically assumed that as long as they have Dust, they can control the Grimm. Their thoughts were like this: If I have more Dust, I have more power, and I can control a larger Grimm army.

But the real controller is not the Dust, but the Grimm's mask instead. The Dust is simply a power source. They were deceived from the very beginning, thinking that the Grimm obeys whoever has the strongest power (Dust), when it was never actually the case. The Genius could easily switch control to herself anytime she wants.

Think of it like a frequency. The Genius gave Noble A a Dust, and tuned the frequency in the Grimm's mask so that the Grimm will obey whoever has the Dust. However, The Genius has the master key and can regain control of all of the Grimm whenever she wanted.

3) I'm not commenting on anything related to SDC, if only because there's almost no factual information on the company.

However, I do agree that some people had managed to find some of The Genius' hidden reservoirs - in addition to the natural ones - and in there lies the ancient technology and secrets.