Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-24994749-20141217140727

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 at bad on Remnant as it was in several parts of Europe, it's possible that yhe 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, 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 their harsh cold ass Winter. And Atlas, that, going bythe uniforma of its students, seems to be the less individualist Kingdom, is in the northern continent which is apparently entirely frozen.