Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-50.43.20.122-20160405063923/@comment-26397825-20160405064608

Team RWBY itself is from fairytales, as you said, but other teams are not.

Team JNPR's theme is genderbends of people who cross-dressed; Jaune is Joan of Arc who crossdressed for...some reason, my history is rusty on her, Pyrrha is Achilles who disguised himself as a red-haired girl named Pyrrha, Nora is Thor who crossdressed to get his hammer back at one point, and Ren is Mulan who crossdressed in order to take her fathers place in China's army.

Sun Wukong is based off the character, Sun Wukong, from the ancient Chinese story, Journey to the West. I believe Sage was once stated to be based of Aesop's fable, Scarlet is based off Peter Pan from the sequel-story, Peter Pan in Scarlet, and I'm not sure who Neptune is based off.