Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-70.162.165.193-20130520231501/@comment-9090085-20130521174650

I think you are confusing a subtle but very important distinction: The characters are not based on fairy tales, the fariy tales are only the basis for their character design. As is said in the secound Interview (http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/RWBY_Interviews), they had the characters (and their stories) first and later attached a fairy tale to them to provide a theme for their design.

What is fariy tale used for Blake's design? Beauty and the Beast.

As is pointed out in this picture (http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/File:Black_the_BEAST.jpg) Blake's bow and coattails are both possed by the Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, thus providing the basis for her character design.

Blake and Adam are perhaps the best example of the fact that the fariy tales are just window dressing: Blake is both the Beauty and the Beast, and Adam is the Beast to her Beauty.

Has your brain exploded yet?

If that's not enough, Monty has gone on record saying they have no intention of retelling any fariy tales, meaning that while characters may based off of fairy tales, their stories are their own.

Heck, they even said they were "lucky" when it came to finding fariy tales to base the characters appearances on; fariy tales which hapened to mach the characters, not the other way around.