User blog comment:Sorairo/Comparisons and World Building….and Questions/@comment-9090085-20141009081003/@comment-15108745-20141009093533

Oh yeah the conduits thing....I forgot about that. So then armor in Remnant serve to augment the Aura that people already possess and not really as just a line of defence against a physical attack. It seems kind of probable that people in Remnant (at least before the first Aura was unlocked) had depended on armor in the old fashioned sense to protect them against whatever was out there. Otherwise, if armor was developed only after Aura was unlocked and it only served as a kind of enhancer for the Aura, then I don't think it would look like the way it does in the series. Because in the series the armor they use still looks like armor that's meant to protect against physical attacks wheras if they were just developed as enhancer devices, they would maybe be a little more compact? Or something?

And well...we don't really know for certain I guess that humans in Remnant don't discriminate. I mean, I could go full cynical and say that humans never change no matter what world they're in and they'll always find ways to hurt one another. But to keep things simple, let's say that humans are okay with each other but not okay with the Grimm and the Faunus. They already have that other that you mentioned.

And oh yeah definitely. I'm pretty sure the fight that the humans were all going for in their strive for individualism (I guessing that you're referring to that stuff Ozpin mentioned that happend 80 something years ago) was the fight against the Grimm. It sounds way too similar to a fight against the manifestations of anonymity. And then Conformity vs. Individuality, is that a founding conflict? Maybe. I would like to think so. But if the war against the Grimm goes back for a long time. And if the Grimm are natural, then how did they get there in the first place? Why is there a driving force for conformity? Are there consequences to individuality?