Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24242439-20131202110612

Okay, so we all know that a ton of people think that RWBY charaters(at least in team RWBY) are loosely based off of fairytales and their stories(I personally am one of them). I think we have a general agreement that Ruby is Little Red Riding Hood due to her appearence and the fact she kills wolves in her trailer; Weiss is Snow White based off of song/lyric references; and that Yang is Goldilocks because of her hair and the 'Junior' reference. But what about Blake?

My friend and I have been wondering this question since the White trailer came out. Due to the referneces in Weiss's(White's) song and Ruby's(Red's) appearence, we thought that they were obviously Snow White and Red Riding Hood. Then we wondered about the other two. Because all we could see of Yang(Yellow) was her hair, we thought Goldilocks. but honestly, Blake(Black) was a huge blank. Nothing seemed to fit her because she was just so... unknown.

Even after the remaining trailers came out I was still confused as to which story she could be. After a lot of thinking about the new information and re-watching I think I've finally come up with what she could be; Hansel and Gretel.

Okay, we all know this story, brother and sister go into the forest due to an evil stepmother(of course) and get lost. They manage to find a witch's house and the witch immediatly wants to eat them. The witch keeps them, deciding that she'll eat Hansel first, and continusly trying to find casual ways to kill them. Soon the witch locks Hansel in a cage, and tries to burn Gretel in her oven, which Gretel notices, so she pushes the Witch into the overn, killing the witch and freeing both of them. We all know this, right?

Okay, now think of it like this; Blake and Adam go to the White Fang due to socities cruelness towards their kind, the stepmother. They eventually get lost within the White Fang, the forest, as the leader's changed and so did their protests, which were now practically burning buildings, killing, and stealing dust. Torchwood, who's the head of it all, is the witch. He obviously doesn't care for the faunuses and just wants to use them.

I remember when I was little reading one version of Hansel and Gretel were Hansel is eaten and Gretel only makes it out of the house. Now think of this; Adam gets caught up in the new ways of the White Fang, and take the orders to steal the train cart full of Dust happily; He got eaten by the witch. Blake doesn't like these new ways, so she becomes causious. She soon notices her partners change in not caring about the remaining people on train, she notices the witch trying to push her into the fire. She soon saves herself from the witch by leaving the White Fang, the forest in order to get back to her own home, Beacon.

This may seem a bit odd of a theory, but it makes sence in my head. It'd be nice if I could get other people's thoughts on the topic. 