Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4010415-20141223120240

Characters have said that the faunus face discrimination and hate, but we haven't really been shown that outside of two characters:


 * Cardin - He's a bully who's a jerk to everyone, so his prejudiced attitude and actions toward faunus don't really stand out as much more than "Cardin being a jerkass."


 * Roman - He's a snarky asshole who likes to make snarky remarks toward everyone. Big surprise.

We've been told by the writers that Roman's attitude toward the faunus is actually quite common among humans. But... we haven't really seen that. Despite them telling us this, it doesn't quite feel like it.

They're going to need to show us this discriminatory attitude that humans have toward faunus, in some way. So far, we've seen a lot of human characters who are tolerant and accepting of Blake, Velvet, and Sun. Meanwhile, only two human characters have shown any actual prejudiced attitude, Weiss made it clear that her hatred was actually focused on the White Fang and she only had mere distrust of faunus, and the background characters don't really do anything except keep Vale from looking like a ghost town.


 * Maybe have a scene where Sun is taking a walk through Vale and trying to ignore the people giving him dirty looks, pushing him, and making rude comments.


 * Maybe show an innocent faunus getting racially profiled and accused of being up to no good.


 * Maybe have a faunus who either supports the White Fang or is a member because extremist humans mutilated their animal ears and now humans are too afraid of the White Fang to try something like that anymore. Basically, they feel that the White Fang has been successful thus far. (I smell an OC idea, but I wouldn't mind if they actually used this idea in the show.) It seems a bit dark, but you know what? Racism has led to some pretty dark places and has led people to do some pretty horrible things. Lynching, anyone?

I would also be interested in seeing a scene where one of the openly faunus characters (Sun or Velvet) goes somewhere with their friends like a store or a fast food place, and either the cashier is nervous or the manager seems annoyed. As they leave, have one of the characters point out that the cashier was scared/the manager was angry because if they refused service, the White Fang would burn the place down.

We need to actually see the effects that the humans' descrimination has on the faunus and the effects that the White Fang's actions have on the kingdom. Hearing it isn't enough. We need to see it.

So, anyone have any other ideas for how they could do this? 