Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-76.98.160.12-20150930101212/@comment-9464517-20151002213242

ChishioKunrin wrote: I actually have a fennec fox OC whose fox ears are, like, 80% cut off. She's an adult now, but when she was much younger, a couple of particularly vicious Humans cut her ears off. Now, she freaks out and gets pissed off if a Human touches her without her permission. The last thing you want is a tiny woman shoving a shotgun barrel in your face and blasting you point blank with fire Dust. And, of course, she's a member of the White Fang. She's one of the radicals who hates Humans outright.

That might be too dark for RWBY, but they wouldn't have to really say outright that that's what happened to her. All they'd have to do is hint. That sounds great! I always despair of the boring manner in which Miles and Kerry chose to handle the White Fang. Black-and-white morality is annoying as fuck at the best of times, but it's particularly egregious in RWBY where the writing initially seemed to be moving away from that.

At the end of the first volume, Blake and Weiss have their infamous Faunus argument, and while it is hamfisted and heavy-handed, it does an OK job of portraying the fact that there is more than one reasonable viewpoint to take in this debate. Sure, Weiss is clearly racist, but it's certainly true that the White Fang cause a lot of damage to property. Then Blake's own struggle is whether it is more acceptable (morally-speaking) to take the attitude of MLK or Malcolm X...

Then in Volume 2, the White Fang are just generic badguy mooks who are easily manipulated by Roman, and nobody has any apprehension whatsoever about killing them. Yawn.