Talk:Willow Schnee/@comment-43971918-20200104224140/@comment-4010415-20200105000458

If she does allude to The Six Swans, I'm actually uncertain which character she specifically alludes to.

Like you said, she could allude to the daughter who had to go six years without speaking a word. The girl did have three children. However, the girl married her husband willingly, and her mother-in-law was the threat to her children.

Meanwhile, the girl's father, the king from the beginning of the story, unwillingly married his new wife after a witch made a deal with him to help him out of a forest he was lost in. He feared what his new wife would do to his children, so he hid them away from her. Yes, he had a whopping seven children from his first marriage, instead of three, but there is still the aspect of having a marriage without love and fearing what the spouse will do to the children. And we know that the RWBY characters are not restricted to alluding to a character of the same sex as them, considering Penny (female) alludes to Pinocchio (male), Robyn (female) alludes to Robin Hood (male), etc.