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73.Anon.52 wrote: and unlike snow white, their basis have much of their parents story left unsaid... I believe Goldilocks is almost entirely centered on the 3 bears house, while RRH is only consistent with her relation to her grand mother... between interpretations having no parents, 1 parent or both.

So your analogy is invalid... as you yourself have said, the extent they draw from the base story is very much on an individual basis, they aren't going to copy wholesale and mesh all 4 like into the woods... this is RWBY. Yes and the father of Snow White is largely left in an uncertain position in her story as well. He could just as easily be based off an entirely different character or some version of the father in the story. In some tellings, for instance, the King is actually the one in the role of the Huntsman who is meant to execute Snow White, but chooses to abandon her in the woods instead.