Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-25316824-20170604053904

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: 1-That was realism.

2-..........No it doesn't. Your definition of Utopia must be horrendously wrong, if you really think that.

The WoR basically described it as a land that was once Utopia-like, but now it's just a wasteland, any beauty ruined thanks to all the foreign capitalists that decided to come uninvited and mine all the Dust without a single damn about the people or the land.

It's like Borderlands's Pandora - E-3+ version.

3-What motifs and what themes?

If you mean the whole "Fairy Tales and Myths and Legends" bit........it was always a theme in name only. Beyond mere references here and there, there is no relation to those things in Remnant nor the characters.

It's like they're just there as a cheap attempt at making the world feel "special", but with no actual effort put to following the idea for real. Hell, in some cases (or rather, most cases), the characters and their allusions are completely different, and any resemblance to the allusion is vague at best. 1. sure.

2. Sir Thomas Moore first used the word utopia in his 1516 book which described temperary forced labor, slavery, forced employment, social heirarchy, and a cashless, propertiless society. I won't go into the reasons why I would like to live in the world you described because I don't have to. According to Sir Thomas Moore, you have the wrong definition of utopia.

3. Individuality vs anonymity/conformity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1TJ5YA3jfw&feature=youtu.be&t=4m41s

-characters are given individual semblences, fighting styles, weapons, designs, ect. Even the villians embrace individuality/creativity and the power that comes with it.

Teamwork vs whatever the good guys were doing for three volumes.

-It doesn't come to fruition until volume 3 but team RWBY is pretty crappy at teamwork and they pay dearly for it. I like the way this guy explains it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK45h5XnxVI