Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.247.91.107-20140511154823/@comment-26206856-20150328150818

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: This is not true. Junior, for instance, is a reference to one of the three bears from the Goldilocks story and Adam is generally believed to be the Beast to Blake's Beauty. Let's not forget Ozpin and Glynda both references characters from the Wizard of Oz with Ironwood also suspected to be a reference to a character from Oz. Also, while not really fairy tales or myths, Jaune and Cardin reference figures who had a direct relationship to each other.

Fair enough. I haven't run through the backgrounds of the teachers yet, but since Monty didn't call Ozpin out on a color due to Oz, it has me wondering if that's what he's really based off of, even if the overarching storyline seems to take cues from the tale.

I also need to stop disregarding Adam as a side character since he's made a prominent appearance again. That's the reason I left him and Black Bear out; seeing no reason to find new story relations for minor characters. Imagine if every news reporter or named mook needed some story to be based off of... This seems to be the case for Cardin as well, acting as a side character with tie-ins to the main character. (For my own benefit, someone let me know if you know more or otherwise.) It just seems to me that Raven and Qrow are both prominent enough to hold their own unique stories.

Fun fact for the Wizard of Oz connections: the 2013 movie had Oz creating a 'family' which included Him, Glynda, a winged monkey (we've been told the flapping sound when Qrow saves Yang is important), and a China girl who is a sole survivor of an attack on China Town, and who's legs he repaired (Raven wears a traditional and modest Chinese dress with a skimpier skirt to give full view of her legs. The mask would support the idea of a sole survivor's accomplishment over a grimm attack.) The downside to this is that it's a prequel that came out in 2013; only a few months before the first episodes of RWBY aired. Though they constantly change things around on the fly, this would mean the original planning most likely wasn't set up this way.