Im Going To Say Something Controversial. While I Dont Think RWBY Did The Best Job At Handling The Whole

I’m going to say something controversial. While I don’t think RWBY did the best job at handling the whole racial allegory, I think they put in some really good stuff that had the potential to really be something. Like with Adam and Ilia showing the two sides of people who were (rightfully) angry at their oppressors and how Adam let that consume him into a power hungry monsters and how Ilia was able to overcome her angry and eventually direct it to something more constructive and not destructive.

Many people didn’t like the stuff with Menagerie but I feel it had a lot of good shit. There are extremists out there born from oppression and it’s also shown how people will equate one groups actions to the whole and how much the White Fang had hurt their cause more under Adam’s leadership then helped. It’s also good to know that the White Fang were not always that way with Blake’s dad being the previous leader who steps up to that role again once he sees how much the Faunus needs the White Fang and how they need a leader who doesn’t let their own hatred and anger cloud their better judgement.

While I admit I don’t really get how the whole Faunus thing works into the overall plot and feels more like world building flavor text, I’ll give the writers some props to trying to tackle it and I feel that as the series went on they did a better job at showing how prejudice and work in our society and who it’s not always in your face racism. Sometimes it’s snide comments, or seeing how minorities tend to be more impoverished. Atlas and Mantle does a good job at showing this and not just telling. You see more faunus in Mantle and barely any in Atlas, there is also Marrow who I think is a wonderful show don’t tell character too!

Idk i’m rambling. I think what I’m saying is, yes the RWBY racism allegory stuff isn’t the best, and it certainly doesn’t start out great, but I feel as they get into it later on you can definitely see the improvement.

see, i feel that no matter how ‘strong’ a female character is, if she does not play a significant part in moving the plot of a story along, she isn’t… really written that well, and it’s clear 2 me that she’s pretty much an afterthought. like, as an example, i really love nobara from jjk, but i don’t think i’d call gege the pinnacle of writing female characters, because at the end of the day, if u removed like. almost all the female characters from jjk, not much would change. and that’s not very compelling, in my eyes. praise for female shounen characters should be doled out very carefully, because in so many cases, the ‘badass’ woman is one that’s there just for the sake of having one, and not because she’s integral to the plot. if a woman’s decisions and choices don’t affect the plot significantly, i don’t generally consider her 2 be written with respect or care. like the question is does she have AGENCY

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