Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180120015359/@comment-34633327-20180122001109

If you must know, my fear may be a little unwarranted, but I think the Shade Headmaster is a Faunus: A Dog Faunus. I think they're based on Toto.

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Don't laugh. In the books, Toto may have initially been just Dorothy's canine companion, but as the series continued, he revealed he can talk but chose not too, and wanted a title to command respect. He eventually found a magic scepter and was named First Magistrate, and tries to make everyone learn the language of the dogs. He gave the title up though when he was supposed to be married to a human, and ran off to be with Labyz back in the Emerald City.

Now, how can that be made into a distorted reflection? A Headmaster who wanted nothing to do with this but couldn't speak up about their reservations, doesn't enforce the guidelines Ozpin wanted them to as they don't know how, but are too self-conscious to ask, and is too enveloped in their work to notice that if they don't speak up, the chaos will continue. At one point independant, once Ozpin and the others get there, they will stick to them like glue and try get their advice on '''everything. '''They may even cling to Ruby (Dorothy) like a security blanket thinking her SEW could solve their problems!

Whereas Toto could talk but chose not too, Shade's Headmaster can't speak up out of crippling shyness. They wouldn't be like Leo, who was afraid. They'd just be too damn nervous to do anything. Considering how Vacuo is, being Raven's Social Darwinism cranked up to the maximum, I could see Shade's Headmaster only retaining their position due to being appointed, and being too damn nervous and overthinking things to really do anything.

The reason that would cause trouble for them, is that if he can't open his mouth due to constantly overthinking everything, they won't be able to get anything done! They won't know where the Summer Maiden is, where the Vault Key is, where the local huntsmen are! It would a nightmare trying to get him to actually speak up! Toto never shut up, the Shade Headmaster never speaks up!