Talk:Religion/@comment-35434444-20181114200156

The brothers are, naturally, an allusion to the Brother's Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, two German scholars who complied all of the avalible fairy tales of thier time with the goal of fractioning out the "Volfgeist"; the spirit of the German people as handed down in myth through the generations. It was intended as an ideological mustering point for liberal progress in a fractured country reminiscent of the tradtions among the people of Remnant to name thier children after colors in order to encoruage solidarity.

Their findings provoked avid discussion in the emerging field of psychology. Similar attempts at folklore analysis were later made by minds like Carl Jung which discovered an essential set of archetypes that permeate all culture and have come to be recognised as the fundemental landmarks of the human psyche.

Hence, while many important references are made to the Brothers, the idea is expanded to include all the cultures of the world. (Or at least, as many as RT can handle.)

Only two members of Team RWBY itself represent one of Grimm's fairy tales: Ruby is Little Red Cap (renamed Red Riding Hood in subsequent retellings) and Weiss represents Snow White.

Goldilocks, as pertaining to Yang, is very similar to thier tales, but was not included in thier collection, nor was Beauty and the Beast. Perhaps this is meant to echo the contrastive and sometimes rivalrous relathionship between the brothers as Ruby and Weiss did not get along with each other when they first met.