Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20171021151743/@comment-4010415-20171021183918

KingFubuki92 wrote:

Aside from name and Tiger theme though, Sienna didn't seem to have much in common with Shere Khan. Shere thought he was the rightful ruler of the Jungle, and wanted to kill Mowgli as he was a maneater. Sienna however wants the Humans to respect the Faunus through Fear, but wouldn't go as far as trying to wipe them out.

Actually, Adam seems to fit Sheere Khan better than Sienna. He despises Humans and wants them either dead or as servants, is psychotic in attempting to fulfill his goals, and considers himself rightful leader of the WF and Faunus to be superior to the Humans.

However, the characters do not have to actually follow their allusion's personality or story. Cinder alludes to Cinderella, but Cinderella was not a villain, nor did she have a thirst for power or use fire against her foes. She simply wanted to go to a ball to have fun for once instead of being worked like a slave. Cinder's connections to her allusion to Cinderella are simple things - glass shoes, her emblem being a pair of heeled shoes, her name, getting back to the Beacon dance by midnight while transforming her outfit and ditching part of her outfit, etc. Sienna Khan can still allude to Shere Khan through being a tiger Faunus and having a similar name, without being a copy of him.

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

I actually thought she was reflexively creating a shield like Ren and Cinder can do in that scene, since it curves around her and the shields we've seen Dust make are all flat. I think you've got that backwards.

Aura shields have always been flat (minus Ozpin's bubble, if that was Aura, but that's pretty damn advanced).