Talk:Salem/@comment-33732017-20191214052615/@comment-35434444-20191214111907

Evidently it's visual motif made to draw a connection between her and the grimm, effectively turning her into a personified queen of the grimm.

Since the grimm are animals, she is by extension she is a representation of mother nature, (as opposed to the ordered, civilized, world of father culture represented by Ozpin and his clockwork motif) in her guise as the archetype of she-who-shall-not-be-fucked-with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnMzDyIJT2g&list=PLtffrRBS4J2HE5I3cl75ncRlVlg-79nFP&index=28

The Lady of Pain is more impartial and is actually more inhuman than Salem, but it's the same principle. There are some things that just be and you don't provoke them.

Nature is very 弱肉朝食 in this aspect, which is why the same thing was done with Android 21 and her cupcake beams.