Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-64.113.177.152-20150121173112/@comment-14909251-20150321184623

ChishioKunrin wrote: Stores getting robbed? Yang beating the shit out of a gang in a nightclub? The White Fang setting fire to shops that won't serve Faunus?

To be honest, the violence that Team RWBY have encountered is probably behind the curtain, being hidden from the general public, to maintain this feeling of a "time of peace." I think you would be hard-pressed to find any time when a large civilization would be experiencing complete peace. Usually, when people speak of "peace" they are talking about war, not criminal activity. This is also often a relative term. When you see people use terms such as "Pax Brittanica", "Pax Romana", or "Pax Americana", the use of the Latin term for "peace" is not apt if you are taking it as absolute. It describes a relative state of affairs where international conflict has effectively subsided within the domain of those powers. For Remnant, there is "peace" in that you do not have a massive rebellion, conflict between the kingdoms, or widespread assaults by the Grimm.

That does not mean there are not issues boiling under the surface waiting to explode into a time of war, but until they rise to the surface, it is still relatively a time of peace. Where the delusion arises is the usual "large-scale conflict between nations is over!" boast of this lull in conflict. It has never proven true in our world, and it is obviously going to prove false in the RWBYverse. At the point when people are seriously believing there will never be another major war is when you should be looking for there to be another major war.