Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130810030606/@comment-10390252-20140629082457

The opening narration of RWBY reminds me a lot of the prologue of Dragonflight by Anne McCaffery:

"When is a legend a legend? And when is a myth a myth?"

In that book, what had previously been dismissed as mythology and lost parts of the planet's distant past suddenly re-emerge as very real and very critical threats to humanity's present-day survival. The political and commercial elites, not wanting their cosy little society disrupted, ignore, dismiss and even attempt to criminalise those who sound the warning. They are literally still denying the existence of the threat as the first body-bags are being wheeled in.

It is this book that in many ways informs my view of the RWBY story. It is this influence that makes me think of a cyclic threat from the Creatures of Grimm and an accompanying cycle in human society, with human and faunus evil growing stronger as the threat of Grimm also waxes and the Moon wanes. It's that, along with the lyrics of Time to Say Goodbye, that make me think our heroes are going to be marginalised and even criminalised by The Powers That Be before (likely when it is essentially too late) they realise that Ozpin was right all along.