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The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: as it concerns my first point, I never excluded other possibilities... I supposed, just saying that being based off Snow White does not preclude her from having a horrible father and a horrible step-mother. Yang and Ruby are part of the same family, but their inspirations have no connection to each other and there is no indication Yang's mother has anything to do with the story that inspired Yang.

and unlike snow white, their basis have much of their parents story left unsaid... I believe Goldilocks is almost entirely centered on the 3 bears house, while RRH is only consistent with her relation to her grand mother... between interpretations having no parents, 1 parent or both.

So your analogy is invalid... as you yourself have said, the extent they draw from the base story is very much on an individual basis, they aren't going to copy wholesale and mesh all 4 like into the woods... this is RWBY.