Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170424154014/@comment-24993958-20170426124729

7thSalamander wrote:

Background: ...She never really had interactions with humans or other Faunus aside from the ones they met at the docks. That was until she had a particularly traumatizing encounter in Atlas. She was 9. Old enough that her parents let her go around by herself. She wandered a little too far off and ran into a group of humans who weren’t particularly fond of Faunus. The group surrounded her, saying vile things. One woman went as far as to kick her and hold her under her foot. She was saved by a man who saw what was going on and drove the group away. He tried to help her, but couldn’t do much since she could only cry, causing her parents to show up.

Your backstory feels like it was made for a different setting.

Faunus discrimination was never this bad in any of the volumes presented and there is little reason to believe it was so bad in the past that a 9 year world to be beaten up by adults.

The Blake comparison brings to light the fact that the situation couldn’t be that bad, otherwise she would have likely stayed with the white fang. Alternatively Weiss would have been more inclined not to view them with such animosity during the events of V1 if the mistreatment of faunus was so overwhelmingly bad even for kids.

Also, your character was serving at an inn before she was 17, despite the fact Yang visiting a nightclub resulted in Junior commenting on her being too young, which makes the scenario unlikely.

Finally…her dad or even mother would not be so passive with letting her leave the white fang given the events that happened when she was 9…I’d dare say they would be pretty ok with the more violent turn the WF took.