User blog:GlassGolem/Overreaching Plot Idea: Light vs. Darkness

I been thinking a little about how some people were disappointed RWBY wasn't about Fairy-tale inspired characters battling the forces of evil(never-mind that that wasn't strictly true - The Black Trailer was indirectly a conflict between Weiss and Blake, for instance); but I realized we're probably going to see something like that in RWBY... but perhaps not in the way they expected.

I expect RWBY to show(at least early on) not a "Light pushing back the Darkness" overreaching plot, but a "Darkness rising up from the cracks it's been driven into to smother the Light". Whether that happens in volume 2, volume 3, or further down the line I don't know.

I mostly believe this mostly through little tidbits: Beacon Academy's Initiation(where students are thrown into a forest full of monsters but can be reasonably expected to make it out alive); The Faunus Rights Revolution(where Humans and Faunus had a war, which they would never have done if the Creatures of Grimm were breathing down their necks); multiple mentions that "this is a time of peace"; and, perhaps most importantly, the opening narration, where humanity's "Light" leads to "the shadow's absence", and then ominously mentions that the "darkness will return" when the Light fades... which it will, eventually.

This also kind of explains why White Fang and Cinder are a big threat at this stage - the destabilization of civilization is what will give the Creatures of Grimm the opportunity to build up the forces they need to make an attempt to bring about civilizations Fall.

I just wanted to share this utterly random thought process I had, and a Blog post seemed like the best place to put it.