Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20150301171157/@comment-24993958-20150309181043

Maki Kuronami wrote: I'm kinda stepping out of my boundary here, but what's with the love for wolves? Wolfs have become a staple in supernatural shows due to the werewolf, arguably the second most popular monster of the 80s, second only to…you can probably figure that one on your own.

As for why they are popular in RWBY as a faunus self inserts…well my theory is that it acts as a catch 22 that lets the oc have some degree of unique character interaction with anyone of team RWBY, which can lead to ships and harems later. It lets you be the wolf to Ruby’s red riding hood (while conveniently forgetting what the wolf actually DOES in the original story), it lets you be the “proof” Weiss’s misguided hatred for faunus is gone (despite Blake being there), let’s you play a love/hate relationship with Blake (because cats and dogs), and gives Yang pun ammo to use on him (because puns).