Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-25316824-20170819002758

Arkantos95 wrote: Except Menagerie's entire existence and way of life is physical evidence and a reminder of oppression and second-class treatment. Meh. The Faunus won the war. They signed the treaty.

And honestly, where were else were the Faunus going to go? If they were given settlements then the inhabitants of those settlements would have to be moved out. And if they resisted then there would be more bloodshed. Afterall, who wants to be a refugee? And still the settlements would be overcrowded and more prone to Grimm attacks than Kingdoms, a sign of inequality.

Even now Mantel is still inhabited by people. The only way to ensure absolute equality would be to build a new kingdom from the ground up. Walls, huntsmen academy,  everything.

My headcanon is that the Faunus never concquered a Kingdom. If the Faunus did control a Kingdom then they would have gotten a much better peace deal. Instead they ran an asymetric war against outposts and settlements.

Because the Faunus didn't control any fortified territory they were vunerable to Grimm. In this light Menagerie was better than camping in the wilderness and fighting grimm day in and day out.