Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161023154654/@comment-4010415-20161024111623

.*Peeks into the thread* Hi.. I'm back again. I swear, I'm back to normal. If I start losing my cool again, I'll try to remind myself to leave. ^^; Er, did that anon I got into it with leave and not come back? If so, I feel even worse now...

70.195.136.97 said:

I think Mr. Schnee would be an interesting character who has turned into a cold business man due to tough experiences. It would make a good tale if during a lecture with Weiss he explains that when he first inherited the company he was a niece optimists who wanted to make things better.

Then once he's in charge and he is painful aware of the bottom line, he sees that it's impossible to meet the demands of Faunus civil rights protesters while still making sure the people if Remnant are readily supplied with the dust they need to survive (their society is so dependent on it it's almost a utility). Unable to meet all demands he decides to do what he thinks is best for everyone and not just one group of people. Then as time goes by and all the criticism and attacks from the white fang turn him into a cold man who has stopped giving a dam about things like faunus rights and what doesn't benefit him.

That kind of lore would help make Mr.schee a realy fleshed out character.

-Defcon Deceiver

My only problem with that is that we're in desperate need of some "show" to go along with the show's "tell" of Faunus discrimination. One way they could show that is Papa Schnee really and truly being responsible for those "controversial labor forces" Blake mentioned the SDC being known for in volume 1.

It's a mining company. Mining has always been dangerous enough in the first place, but they're mining volatile crystals, and the act of mining may even release powdered Dust into the air, which, as we've seen, can explode when sneezed on. It'd be a little bit of a problem if Papa Schnee didn't feel like going through the trouble of having safety regulations and such that might slow down mining efforts or purification in the factories or anything that might lead to a little less of a profit.

So, with my desire for the show to actually show us that Faunus discrimination really was a real thing even before the White Fang gained a bad reputation, I'm kinda biased against the idea of Papa Schnee's morally gray business methods being caused by Faunus protesting for things he can't reasonably give them while still making a profit. I really don't want this to turn into a story of "The Faunus were causing people to discriminate against them all along. They were imagining discrimination until they created discrimination!"