Talk:Necessary Sacrifice/@comment-29684190-20190926062641

Excerpt from the Volume 5 Director's Commentary:

[in reference to the half-submerged stalls that the fish faunus are swimming around]

Miles: "Oh hey hey hey... the Shallow Sea - I don't think we ever really call it out by name - but it's something we've had in our head since Volume 1"

Kerry: "We're not there yet, but that's fine"

Miles: "I saw the fish Faunus and I got really excited"

Kerry'': "Yeah, the Shallow Sea has been around since, that's another like pre-Volume 1 thing, I think, just as we were figuring out the map, and the idea behind it is that there's..." [probably about to state how spacious the Shallow Sea is, but gets on a tangent with Miles on whether Remnant uses miles or KM, gets off topic]''

Miles'': "The Shallow Sea... we wanted to do, we introduced a few new kinds of Faunus in this volume, we introduced the concept of Faunus that might have wings, as well as like fins and stuff like that, and the idea was like with RWBY, a lot of characters and ideas are inspired by fairy tale creatures and things like that, so it was the idea of, this world's version of mermaids and angels and demons and all that stuff and like Faunus with wings, and Faunus with fish-like appendages tend to be very very rare, and sometimes a bit of a problem like if you're a faunus with fins or things like that it can sometimes make like mobility a little difficult, so sometimes it could actually be like, it could kind of suck, like 'well I got born with great old flipper feet, it would be great if I could hang out in a tropic zone, that'd be really rad.'" [Kerry makes a joke about how the Shape of Water is about a Faunus] "But that was like the original idea way back when and getting to kind of incorporate some of that into..." [Cut-off by Kerry]''

Kerry: "Yeah it just makes sense that hey, we're in Menagerie, this is where everyone would congregate, this is the ideal place for somebody who has a faunus trait that maybe makes it just a little harder to get by on the everyday..."

Miles "We wanted to show off some of those things like Yuma, for instance, who doesn't play like a huge major role... we still wanted to highlight like 'ooh this is a neat kind of faunus that we haven't seen before.'"