Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-14909251-20141218001938

MetallicArcher wrote: @Devil's Advocate

I can see Menagerie having been a long standing issue since before the Great War.

Going with that idea, I personally think the Great War is meant to parallel our world's WW1 and that Atlas has a roll similar to Germany in it. If the post-war was half as bad on Remnant as it was in several parts of Europe, it's possible that the Faunus seized their chance to strike back.

Now, I know the general headcanon is that the anti-individualism movement Ozpin talked about was facism but...

As someone who is not from the USA and thus has another perspective on the USA entertainment industry, let me tell you that from all the movies that hit the cinema every week or Tv series that are aired in my country, the bulk is Yankee. And when the plot touches on individualism vs collectivism, the big bad is always either Soviet Russia or in more modern stories China, or there is some form of reference to communism.

And I mean, Russia is well known for having successfully resisted Napoleon's and Hitler's invasion largely because their armies got caught in its harsh cold ass winter. And Atlas, that, going by the uniform of its students, seems to be the less individualist Kingdom, is in the northern continent which is apparently entirely frozen. The Great War being apparently a war between humans does make it very likely that the events played some part in the Faunus uprising. I did do a blog post a while back suggesting there were natural calamities that played a major role, however. A combination of natural disasters and the aftermath of a major global conflagration could definitely contribute to the atmosphere that would spawn the sort of revolution we are talking about.