Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140926004722/@comment-14909251-20141001064815

Mercen-X wrote: Pyrrha is a more traditional sort, she speaks "co-r-rectly" and dresses appropriately for combat situations (well, aside from the heels and those dangly things on her headpiece). I think this is due to her Mistral origins which is also why I believe Mistral gets along particularly well with Atlas. Their uniforms are also nearly identical aside from seemingly having inverted color schemes.

Ruby and Yang, being from Patch, seem to have a more relaxed speech pattern. Personally, I prefer Pyrrha's pronunciation. Jaune is a French word and I don't ever recall them using a "hard j". My thinking has been that Mistral is the more trade-oriented society, while Atlas is more focused on providing services for the rest of Remnant upon which it depends for resources. From my perspective, it is more likely that Mistral and Atlas are rivals or otherwise have an uneasy relationship. Mistral having a more traditional soldier-based military force with Atlas being more technology-based and Mistral being interested in peace due to the benefit for trade relations with Atlas constantly being prepared for war due to its unease regarding resource-dependency. To me this means they would be at odds with each other.