Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-16277621-20130823040543/@comment-14909251-20131023234716

BenRG wrote: My interpretatin for the opening text in the Black Trailer has long been like this:

"Your hopes have become my burden." - Blake feels that White Fang's current goals are not a real freedom. This is especially because many Faunus are now living amongst humans in peace and it is clear White Fang wishes them harm as much as it does its human oppressors.

"I will find my own liberation." - She's decided to see if she can find another way to save the Faunus that doesn't involve (another) ruinious race war. Especially because the moderate Faunus will fight alongside the humans and nothing good can come from it degenerating into a Faunus civil war.

If I'm right, then White Fang is like some radical Jihadi groups - they regard moderates from their own race to be as much their enemies as those of other races and want to destroy them too. The more accurate comparison would probably be the Black Panther Party. How Faunus are treated in Vytal in the present day of the RWBYverse is probably akin to how African-Americans were treated in the civil rights era. No doubt advances were being made on matters of law, but many forms of systemic oppression persisted. Given that non-violent means seemed ineffective in the face of the violent suppression of the black community, the propensity for violent resistance increased. Although we see a rather minor bit of racist bullying at Beacon, I would imagine there is much more systemic discrimination going on in the  wider world of Vytal.

Duskeh wrote: Since the usernames are done in the same format, you'd think that they were all oficial, however, those are all really good points. I wonder if, like someone else (can't remember who) already said, they did that intentionally to promote the "mysterious" image that they've given Blake thus far. Still wish we could've had the chance to learn something new about her, though :( Of course, those same points could be arguments for it being an official account. After all, their Twitter accounts roughly reflect their personalities. That Blake is the only one not being followed by Oum could be because it reinforces her as an introvert, same as the one modest tweet revealing little of interest about her as a person.