Well I don't think the religion/ideology stuff would be that much concern for us, unless there is a conflict between two groups of different religions, one from Earth and one from Remnant. And in all honesty I am all for not including the religious options as I have a feeling that's just a can of worms that we don't need to be opened anytime soon.
Bubble Tea Bears and Golden Tigers - An Alternate Universe RWBY Isekia Quest
- Thread starter VinnyMoneyHo
- Start date
- What if? Alt. History
thanks for pointing that out. I corrected my post.
- Location
- Italy
suboptions of the plan need to be marked by
-[]
the "-" before the square brackets makes it clear the other lines are part of the main vote, so the tally will count it as a single block/plan.
and again, voting is not open so you should not be putting the x in there yet. Not that big of a deal, honestly, but still.
I have some disagreements with the plan. I think Lithium is not particularly urgent right now. I get why you took urban solar, though I prefer steel + iron mine.
I HEAVILY disagree with Taichung (you should probably add its "parent" option, "Hellfire ATGM Production", to make it clear what it's about) over C-130 for reasons said before.
- Location
- Most likely California
I will say that I hope to see a Remnant-side religious or cultural perspective on Earth and its lack of Grimm. Because I'm fairly certain the result would be a heavy amount of existential horror.
Like, imagine if one day, a random island suddenly appeared in the Pacific. Investigation finds a small Island-nation, that claim to be from another dimension. First Contact is peaceful, and a conversion about the difference between their homeworld and Earth start. Most of it odd, but mostly minor; They don't have Redheads, use advanced zeppelins, etc.
Then someone asks, "What's Cancer?"
Confusion and attempts at clarification ensure. They don't call it a different name, don't find the symptoms recognizable, and find the idea utterly bizarre. Turns out that they don't suffer from any genetic issues or malicious mutations at all. Not just cancer, but any genetic disorder is unheard of outside of fiction. Then someone queries how this impacts their biological lifespan.
And they respond, "What do you mean? You just live until you get too injured or get sick?" And it turns out they are biologically immortal, and immune to aging.
And they find the idea of dying of old age horrifying of course. People here just...die? Get worn down and broken like a unmaintained machine, until they just stop? But its even worse from our perspective. Because old age is such an intrinsic part of our world, just as part of our natural life as hunger or sleep. Our oldest stories involve people dealing with their impending death. It is a given fact that everyone will die eventually. And now we find that it was never truly necessary for our existence. There is an entire world, with a equal civilization to ours, that exists with the ever-present doom that surrounds us. What does that mean for us, and what kind of God would create us and demand we rot and decay as we live, when it is so cruelly unneeded?
Wow, that got heavy. Anyways, I just think it would be interesting to see how Remnant reacts to the idea of the World that managed to grow and exist without Grimm, and how different but similar it is to them.
Like, imagine if one day, a random island suddenly appeared in the Pacific. Investigation finds a small Island-nation, that claim to be from another dimension. First Contact is peaceful, and a conversion about the difference between their homeworld and Earth start. Most of it odd, but mostly minor; They don't have Redheads, use advanced zeppelins, etc.
Then someone asks, "What's Cancer?"
Confusion and attempts at clarification ensure. They don't call it a different name, don't find the symptoms recognizable, and find the idea utterly bizarre. Turns out that they don't suffer from any genetic issues or malicious mutations at all. Not just cancer, but any genetic disorder is unheard of outside of fiction. Then someone queries how this impacts their biological lifespan.
And they respond, "What do you mean? You just live until you get too injured or get sick?" And it turns out they are biologically immortal, and immune to aging.
And they find the idea of dying of old age horrifying of course. People here just...die? Get worn down and broken like a unmaintained machine, until they just stop? But its even worse from our perspective. Because old age is such an intrinsic part of our world, just as part of our natural life as hunger or sleep. Our oldest stories involve people dealing with their impending death. It is a given fact that everyone will die eventually. And now we find that it was never truly necessary for our existence. There is an entire world, with a equal civilization to ours, that exists with the ever-present doom that surrounds us. What does that mean for us, and what kind of God would create us and demand we rot and decay as we live, when it is so cruelly unneeded?
Wow, that got heavy. Anyways, I just think it would be interesting to see how Remnant reacts to the idea of the World that managed to grow and exist without Grimm, and how different but similar it is to them.
Uhh I am pretty sure people of Remnant do age and stuff like that as well, just not much as what our Earth has to deal with. But besides that it would for sure be interesting to know how they would react to our Earth history, and the consequences of no presence of Grimm on Earth. Especially the nukes that are detonated in Imperial Japan at the time of world war two, and many other stuff.
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- Location
- Most likely California
Sorry, I guess that was unclear. I'm saying that Grimm are such an intrinsic part of Remnant that they would find the idea of a world without them as bizarre as someone from Earth would find a world where old age isn't a thing. And wondering how someone would react to the fact that something was considered a harsh but critical part of their existence wasn't ever necessary.
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Have you seen volume 8 of Rwby with the introduction of the winter Maiden?
Besides that I think we should follow the example of the British at the time of world war 2. Which they dominate the waves and the skies with their fleet and air force, use our intelligence agencies and special operations units to cause havoc to those that threaten our interests.
Besides that I think we should follow the example of the British at the time of world war 2. Which they dominate the waves and the skies with their fleet and air force, use our intelligence agencies and special operations units to cause havoc to those that threaten our interests.
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- Location
- Philippines
[x] Plan Clearing Previous Goals and Preparation
Infrastructure & Logistics (4d, 15Res Each, +32 Per Dice)
-[x]Lungmen Nuclear Plant Completion (Progress: 70/250)(+20 Energy per turn) (Priority) (3 Dice, -45 Res)
-[x]Nufaya Housing district (North Menegarie) (Progress: 0/100)(+1 QoL, +1 PS) (1 Dice, - 15)
Heavy Industry (5d, 25Res Each, +20 + one time 20 bonus)
-[x] Ruifang District Copper Mine (Taiwan) (Progress: 0/100) (+10 Resources per turn) (2 Dice, -50Res)
-[x] Urban Solar Panel Production and Distribution Plant (Green) (Progress: 0/150) (+ 2 Energy per turn) (+ 1 PS and QoL) (+5 to all rolls on any solar-related projects)(Unlocks other Solar related projects) (2 Dice, -50Res)
-[x] Lithium Battery Shops Reactivation (Progress 0/200) (-1 energy per turn) (+50 Energy cap) (Provides 1 free dice, 1 military dice) (1 Dice, - 25Res)
Light Industry and Chemicals (5 Dice) (20 Resource Per Die) (+20, +15 for Oil, +20 one time bonus)
-[x] Dhera Ice Dust Mines (Progress: 19/100) (+5 Energy, + 5 Resources per turn) (2 Dice, -40 Res)
-[x] Personnel Vehicle Manufacturing Retooling (Phase 2) (Progress: 17/125) (changes to -10 resources per turn) (Adds +14 to infrastructure and logistics rolls) (3 Dice, -60 Res)
Agriculture (5d, 15Res Each) (+20, + 5 Food/Med, +1d4 Agri/Med)
-[x] Rusl Creek Algae Plantation (Progress: 0/100) (+3 Energy, +1 Qol, +5 resources per turn) (2 Dice, -30 Res)
-[x] Pharmaceuticals greenhouses (Progress: 0/125) (+2 resources) (+2 QoL)(+1 PS)(+5 Resources) (3 Dice, - 45 Res)
Services (5d, 15 Res Each)
-[x] Adult Vocational Training Establishment (Progress: 111/250) (-5 Energy) (+1 Free, Light Industry, Heavy Industry, and Service Dice each) (3d,-45 Res)
-[x] Aura Training School - Jumpstart Training School (Progress: 0/150) (+1 Infrastructure Dice)(+2 PS) (2d, -30Res)
Orbital (2d, +5 rolls, 10Res each)
-[x] Joint Space Administration Facility (Progress: 152/450) (Unlocks additional orbital tech) (2d, -20 Res)
Defense (8d, 10 Res Each, +25 - 1d8)
-[x] Firearms Production Expansion (Light and Heavy Machine Guns) (Progress: 0/125) (-1 Energy) (3d, -30 Res)
-[x] Domestic C-130 Production, Taichung Production (Progress - 0/150) (+10 to all service and infrastructure rolls) (-1 energy per turn) (3d, -30Res)
-[x] Coast Cutter Expansion Program (Progress: 0/150) (-1 Energy) (2d, -20 Res)
Intelligence Work (4d, 15 Res Each Not sure if there is bonus?)
-[x] Analyze the CCTS network (Progress: 0/125) (Provides general intelligence updates) (3d, -45)
-[x] Domestic corruption crackdown (Progress: 0/100) (Reward:????) (1d, -15)
Edicts/Operations (paid with Free Dice)
-[x]Establish a Research Division (Cost: -1 service dice, -1 light industry dice) (Unlocks Special research branch)
-[x]Preserve Old Earth heritage (Cost: 1 service dice, 1 intelligence dice for a turn)
595/800 Resource Spent
Aiming Primarily to finish the older objectives to cash in the reward and get it done. Otherwise getting started on various requests.
Focusing on Production in the Defense Dice aiming to increase raw production + Objectives.
On Intelligence wanting to get the tap on the CCTS to see the bigger picture, then looking inside because of mystery box and wanting to find out if there are other smugglers and where exactly they are sending the goods (also wanting to see for potential black markets).
Operations are mostly focused on Establishing the Research Dept and Preserving Old World Data,
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Infrastructure & Logistics (4d, 15Res Each, +32 Per Dice)
-[x]Lungmen Nuclear Plant Completion (Progress: 70/250)(+20 Energy per turn) (Priority) (3 Dice, -45 Res)
-[x]Nufaya Housing district (North Menegarie) (Progress: 0/100)(+1 QoL, +1 PS) (1 Dice, - 15)
Heavy Industry (5d, 25Res Each, +20 + one time 20 bonus)
-[x] Ruifang District Copper Mine (Taiwan) (Progress: 0/100) (+10 Resources per turn) (2 Dice, -50Res)
-[x] Urban Solar Panel Production and Distribution Plant (Green) (Progress: 0/150) (+ 2 Energy per turn) (+ 1 PS and QoL) (+5 to all rolls on any solar-related projects)(Unlocks other Solar related projects) (2 Dice, -50Res)
-[x] Lithium Battery Shops Reactivation (Progress 0/200) (-1 energy per turn) (+50 Energy cap) (Provides 1 free dice, 1 military dice) (1 Dice, - 25Res)
Light Industry and Chemicals (5 Dice) (20 Resource Per Die) (+20, +15 for Oil, +20 one time bonus)
-[x] Dhera Ice Dust Mines (Progress: 19/100) (+5 Energy, + 5 Resources per turn) (2 Dice, -40 Res)
-[x] Personnel Vehicle Manufacturing Retooling (Phase 2) (Progress: 17/125) (changes to -10 resources per turn) (Adds +14 to infrastructure and logistics rolls) (3 Dice, -60 Res)
Agriculture (5d, 15Res Each) (+20, + 5 Food/Med, +1d4 Agri/Med)
-[x] Rusl Creek Algae Plantation (Progress: 0/100) (+3 Energy, +1 Qol, +5 resources per turn) (2 Dice, -30 Res)
-[x] Pharmaceuticals greenhouses (Progress: 0/125) (+2 resources) (+2 QoL)(+1 PS)(+5 Resources) (3 Dice, - 45 Res)
Services (5d, 15 Res Each)
-[x] Adult Vocational Training Establishment (Progress: 111/250) (-5 Energy) (+1 Free, Light Industry, Heavy Industry, and Service Dice each) (3d,-45 Res)
-[x] Aura Training School - Jumpstart Training School (Progress: 0/150) (+1 Infrastructure Dice)(+2 PS) (2d, -30Res)
Orbital (2d, +5 rolls, 10Res each)
-[x] Joint Space Administration Facility (Progress: 152/450) (Unlocks additional orbital tech) (2d, -20 Res)
Defense (8d, 10 Res Each, +25 - 1d8)
-[x] Firearms Production Expansion (Light and Heavy Machine Guns) (Progress: 0/125) (-1 Energy) (3d, -30 Res)
-[x] Domestic C-130 Production, Taichung Production (Progress - 0/150) (+10 to all service and infrastructure rolls) (-1 energy per turn) (3d, -30Res)
-[x] Coast Cutter Expansion Program (Progress: 0/150) (-1 Energy) (2d, -20 Res)
Intelligence Work (4d, 15 Res Each Not sure if there is bonus?)
-[x] Analyze the CCTS network (Progress: 0/125) (Provides general intelligence updates) (3d, -45)
-[x] Domestic corruption crackdown (Progress: 0/100) (Reward:????) (1d, -15)
Edicts/Operations (paid with Free Dice)
-[x]Establish a Research Division (Cost: -1 service dice, -1 light industry dice) (Unlocks Special research branch)
-[x]Preserve Old Earth heritage (Cost: 1 service dice, 1 intelligence dice for a turn)
595/800 Resource Spent
Aiming Primarily to finish the older objectives to cash in the reward and get it done. Otherwise getting started on various requests.
Focusing on Production in the Defense Dice aiming to increase raw production + Objectives.
On Intelligence wanting to get the tap on the CCTS to see the bigger picture, then looking inside because of mystery box and wanting to find out if there are other smugglers and where exactly they are sending the goods (also wanting to see for potential black markets).
Operations are mostly focused on Establishing the Research Dept and Preserving Old World Data,
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Your plan is good for a well balanced one for all the items and objectives we would need to complete, especially the old objectives. All of them have bonuses and dice that can be of use for future plans.
It takes more than a location change to stop a Bull Moose (By RealOtto)
It takes more than a location change to stop a Bull Moose
"To sit at home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing." - Theodore Roosevelt, "The Higher Life of American Cities" in The Outlook (December 21, 1895)
With the introduction of the wider internet across Menagerie and Taiwan, being based on Earth's variant rather than the Remnant CCT, many things became accessible to the Faunus. Arguably more than ever before with their access to the wider world of Remnant cut from the storms that shadowed the Pact – its presence making the other Kingdoms ignore the backwater nation in favour of their own problems. Mistral's eroding economy catapulted by the collapse of the Mistral Trading Company, Fishing and Shipping lines across the Kingdoms suffering a financial collapse, the rising tensions as many souls on Remnant outside Menagerie seeing Faunus as stealing jobs of the destitute - fear mounting that perhaps they even sabotage efforts for a recovery of the economy, many extremists with their own circle of loudness even accusing them as baiters to bait Grimm into mass attacks.
Far from these mounting tensions, far from the Kingdoms that soar in turmoil in every single possible field of governance and socioeconomic problems, an old Atlas shipping vessel sails forwards towards what can be called the last hope of a group of people, Menagerie. It is night time,
One of these poor souls – that suffered from fear mongers, unfair rent prices, food control in favour of the majority, wages below the poverty level and for some even getting nothing, and other conditions that made many kicked out of their homes and feeling unwanted by those that meant to protect the people – looked at his dying mother with sadness, speaking to her softly with reassurances before coughing, leaning onto a big stick, using it as a cane to hold him upright.
"Mother.." He whispers, straining his eyes with tears dripping down his cheeks, his left hand touching his mother's cheek thumb on chin.
"Theo." His mother looks at him with a saddened but resigned smile, feeling weak to move her arms to hug her distressed son.
Theo didn't like the look his mother was giving him, he shakes his head.
"Mom, you can't." His breath quickened, his breathing feeling queasy as he shakes frantically. "You can't mom!"
The moment stretches onwards as his hacking coughs become more frequent, his mother looking at him as a tear drop from her eyes – unable to do a single thing to try and alleviate her son's distress. However, that did not stop her from trying to do so anyway.
"Mother!" Theo says in shock, stopping his previous actions, as he attempts to rest his mother's hand to the ground slowly.
She grabs his wrist softly, trying to give him a reassuring smile as her arm visibly shakes as she tries to sooth him, thumb on his hand.
Many would've said, and some would agree, of how she should've died at that moment. She ignored it, lasting a few hours over the night as she tried to calm down her son away from igniting any potential panic attacks or worsen his already sickly health.
The first springs of light shine upon the boat as Theo's mother looks at it with wonder, her son following suit as he turns his head slowly to face the sun's rays over the horizon.
"Smile, Theo." She whispers weakly, he turns his head back to her with a feeling of resignation in both their hearts. "It's Sunrise."
She gives out her final breath with a smile on her face.
Theo smiles back at her, right as the crowd of people's voices raises as a large sketch of land is seen over the Horizon. Excitement mounting as the final dredges of the journey has finally reached its end.
He looks at the land as he grasps his mother's hand, for it is his mother and father's wish for him to leave to a place somewhere away from the mounted tensions in Atlas – and he'll go along with it.
A place where he can recuperate and live.
Menagerie.
The sights of Kuo Kuana blew his mind away. It certainly isn't as backwater as their Atlesian neighbours and schools said when covering the island as a topic of conversation and learning – after all these people have their own electronic devices selling from stores with their own connection of what he learned to be the island's version of the CCT, focused more on the local region than international.
As he signed up for work in construction jobs to gather money, he is old enough at the Age of 16 thank you very much, despite the health risks of having to carry and work the labour.
What was surprising to him was seeing humans, from some place where he definitely knew did not appear in the maps from back home, working together and even cracking jokes and conversations with the faunus workers. Of course, they spoke with an unheard of Atlas accent, but he even caught some faunus attempting to speak their own language while having an off accent compared to these new humans.
Different from the Kingdoms, he welcomes the change.
"Yo, Theodore!" His supervisor arrives as the day ends. "The job's fine enough for the Bull Moose himself?"
"Yes, supervisor." Theo didn't understand the reference, aside from the fact it's related with his Faunus traits, but he turned around from his task of placing down the steel cables that was said to strengthen the building it is for.
The supervisor looks at the work he was doing in front of him.
"Great work! Hard work as usual, Theo." She nods her head in approval.
"Need'd the job." Theo shrugged as he turned around to continue his work.
"Say," The supervisor draws out as a thought comes to her. "Ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt?"
"Never heard." Theo shakes his head, continuing to focus on his work.
He jumps as she grapples him.
"Really now? I must show you!" She says cheerfully as she leads him towards the break room, his co-workers looking at him in pity – while some give some jeers with an amused smirk as he looks back at them with confusion.
"..The principles for which we stand, are the principles of fair play, and the Square Deal for every man and every woman in the United States.." The voice recording of a man a century ago (and wasn't that crazy? the people of Earth had recording technology longer than Remnant ever had?) continues onwards.
At first he was not impressed with this man, who was noted for some problems relating to other races and what not. But video after video – at his friend's prompting, he continued to grow a more different point of the man, an abstract painting of one person in a world of differing personalities, ideas, and an ever changing landscape of nations, peoples, and systems with their own problems, solutions, and favourites and not favourites.
Roosevelt was one of them, but he was more than some painting that came from a comfortable place of birth with no suffering or facing struggle. He sought fair play in a world that refused to play by those rules, in a way mirroring Atlas and from what he knew of the wider world outside the Pact seeing nothing wrong with destroying the working man and woman. While he may not have successes as the President of the United States, he developed the foundations and developed the already existing ones to allow the Government to combat issues of those unwilling to play fair in a competitive market, and his successor and relative expanded on them further than Theodore could ever imagine.
He turns his mind away from his thoughts of the man towards his group of friends that he gathered here today, with the majority from places like Vale, Vacuo, Mistral, and those that managed to escape Atlas.
"I did not expect much from this high pitched man, after all anyone can espouse the same amount of words and did not deliver – or even did not follow through their words in favour of keeping the old order of unfair play and practices. Did not help the people in favour of the pockets running the big trusts of Atlas and the other nations that claim to be for equality – well if one thinks about it, they did practise two facets of equality: Equality of Suffering and Equality of Exploitation. The anti-Faunus sentiment was all a smokescreen, for I saw humans tossed out in the streets, the fields, and for some the oceans bordering Mantle in the Kingdom of Atlas for similar reasons as those of our own were tossed away for.
"I understood that old saying of "Life is unfair", but why does no one try to challenge it to make sure that fairness did arrive in life anyway? If anything in my humble opinion, it is the words of a defeatist man in a defeatist world, seeing the wrong and taking pleasure out of the carcass of the once living and continuous world. Are these people willing to spit on the blood, soils, sweat, and tears of the struggling and their ancestors that made sure the world was more fair than before? If there are such things as corruptors, why not become the non-corruptors?
"If there is one thing I can conclude from that whole sentiment, it'd be this: Life is unfair for those unwilling to band together, those who are unwilling to pick themselves up, and those that imagine themselves the whole Universe when there are more universes across the world. Unair for those that sought to see profit for free without working once a single day and waking moment. Poverty is rampant and once made those using the systems take them for granted into those willing to work their hardest to make sure they can never again live in such a lifestyle again. It is there that those that seek to abuse power for their own image of destruction and never ending darkness took their power – they prey on the weak for their wealth of numbers rather than the wealth of peoples and their true value beyond decimals and integers – worthless and being a clog to a machine that settles the minds of the world with smokescreens to hide their unfair practices against the common person and the common government, and at times even infiltrating them.
That does not excuse what the other two can do to the third, or even against one another, but that does not mean they could not collaborate to make sure that the people of the state – the free peoples, will never again be subjugated and blinded by those preying on them again." Theo stops as he looks at them with passion in his heart and voice.
"Remnant today is a powderkeg, the old order smoking in a crucible. The leftovers from a time when the King of Vale did not rise, sought to keep control and remain in power in the councils that rule the countries of Remnant. Tensions have risen since the last time war was brought to everywhere that can be fought: The Cities, Oceans, Plains, Hills, everywhere you can think of. Even Menagerie saw some of the fighting themselves between opposing sides. Technology progressed rapidly since the last war, with many theories of war soon to be part of the test.
"The supremacists see this as their moment to rise, colluding with the used to be nobilities and families that want to hold onto their receding influence and authority – seeing it the only way to still hold onto them. They struck when the Kingdoms were vulnerable, their people wanting to blame for misfortunes that were at times within their own power, and at times not of their own. Fear mongers taking away good friends and what once was somewhat peaceful into turmoil and abuse.
"This all came from their decisions since the Great War to kick the Faunus out of their Kingdoms and into the place we call Menagerie. Let's face it, many of us here and those moving into the island still sought to return home outside these shores and into the other powers. That is understandable, for their and your homes were taken without complaint, laws enacted that made it so that the only option there is to move in here, and other factors that made our people forcibly stay on an island they do not see as their home.
"But, much more can be built here than waiting for the time they take the final blow and make you and I the only Faunus remaining on the continent." He looks at them solemnly, many of his friends looking angered, some sharing the same emotion as him at these thoughts.
"Here we stand!" Theo says to them with a raised voice, a tone of firmness in his voice. "As people who seek to do good in the world around them! To fight against the tyranny and oppression of the common citizen of nations whose ideas can be spread and uplift the hopes and hearts to combat against them! They fear us and those that suffer with us, repulse all opposition that isn't Huntsmen or Huntresses! The principles of which we will stand, and those of the next generation, shall furthermore allow the fairness that became trapped without anyone defending it to be freed once again!
"I expect each and everyone of you, within this new progressive body, to participate within and to conduct yourselves as good citizens of a state of the common people. To act accordingly outside and within, collaborate and make sure the voices of the people are heard and represented in a manner of fair play." He finishes his speech clenches his fist as he places it to his chest.
He is answered with cries of agreement amongst them.
"It is in our duty, and it is the prelude, to guide and make the world a more fair place to live in." He calls out with a solemn nod. "Whether that takes years or perhaps decades and centuries to do so, it is in our time towards creating the foundation of where the new progressive movement shall be headed for, and to develop it further: A Square Deal for every Human and Faunus, for every man and woman."
N/A: Was planning to dedicate a chapter towards music until I just stopped and thought to myself "What happens when a sickly yet strong up-front Moose Faunus with the name of 'Theo' were to wind up introduced to the legacy and the progressive movement of one Theodore Roosevelt?"
Like TR, he doesn't see businesses as bad really (a misconception many thinks of Theodore Roosevelt), what he has against them is the matters towards fair play competitions, in which some during TR's time (and currently in Remnant) did not practice at all. That expands over towards Progressive Party Era TR that focused on building more rapport with the common people, then onwards with reforms and ideas outside and inside the United States that practically expands the progressive movement of Menagerie (With its minor branches becoming its own once established in the other Kingdoms).
Therefore, a location change will not stop a Bull Moose. Theo at first skeptic about the man, and he has his reasons to believe so, but besides the negative/misgiving aspects of Roosevelt, he saw a great inspiration to do good. With Roosevelt, he becomes introduced to FDR, and so on the concepts of social and political reform over the course of the 19th to 21st Century, more so the 20th Century.
Now, I wonder how the Progressive Movement will impact the Faunus Rights Revolution (Whether that be subtly or unsubtly).
"To sit at home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing." - Theodore Roosevelt, "The Higher Life of American Cities" in The Outlook (December 21, 1895)
With the introduction of the wider internet across Menagerie and Taiwan, being based on Earth's variant rather than the Remnant CCT, many things became accessible to the Faunus. Arguably more than ever before with their access to the wider world of Remnant cut from the storms that shadowed the Pact – its presence making the other Kingdoms ignore the backwater nation in favour of their own problems. Mistral's eroding economy catapulted by the collapse of the Mistral Trading Company, Fishing and Shipping lines across the Kingdoms suffering a financial collapse, the rising tensions as many souls on Remnant outside Menagerie seeing Faunus as stealing jobs of the destitute - fear mounting that perhaps they even sabotage efforts for a recovery of the economy, many extremists with their own circle of loudness even accusing them as baiters to bait Grimm into mass attacks.
Far from these mounting tensions, far from the Kingdoms that soar in turmoil in every single possible field of governance and socioeconomic problems, an old Atlas shipping vessel sails forwards towards what can be called the last hope of a group of people, Menagerie. It is night time,
One of these poor souls – that suffered from fear mongers, unfair rent prices, food control in favour of the majority, wages below the poverty level and for some even getting nothing, and other conditions that made many kicked out of their homes and feeling unwanted by those that meant to protect the people – looked at his dying mother with sadness, speaking to her softly with reassurances before coughing, leaning onto a big stick, using it as a cane to hold him upright.
"Mother.." He whispers, straining his eyes with tears dripping down his cheeks, his left hand touching his mother's cheek thumb on chin.
"Theo." His mother looks at him with a saddened but resigned smile, feeling weak to move her arms to hug her distressed son.
Theo didn't like the look his mother was giving him, he shakes his head.
"Mom, you can't." His breath quickened, his breathing feeling queasy as he shakes frantically. "You can't mom!"
The moment stretches onwards as his hacking coughs become more frequent, his mother looking at him as a tear drop from her eyes – unable to do a single thing to try and alleviate her son's distress. However, that did not stop her from trying to do so anyway.
"Mother!" Theo says in shock, stopping his previous actions, as he attempts to rest his mother's hand to the ground slowly.
She grabs his wrist softly, trying to give him a reassuring smile as her arm visibly shakes as she tries to sooth him, thumb on his hand.
Many would've said, and some would agree, of how she should've died at that moment. She ignored it, lasting a few hours over the night as she tried to calm down her son away from igniting any potential panic attacks or worsen his already sickly health.
The first springs of light shine upon the boat as Theo's mother looks at it with wonder, her son following suit as he turns his head slowly to face the sun's rays over the horizon.
"Smile, Theo." She whispers weakly, he turns his head back to her with a feeling of resignation in both their hearts. "It's Sunrise."
She gives out her final breath with a smile on her face.
Theo smiles back at her, right as the crowd of people's voices raises as a large sketch of land is seen over the Horizon. Excitement mounting as the final dredges of the journey has finally reached its end.
He looks at the land as he grasps his mother's hand, for it is his mother and father's wish for him to leave to a place somewhere away from the mounted tensions in Atlas – and he'll go along with it.
A place where he can recuperate and live.
Menagerie.
The sights of Kuo Kuana blew his mind away. It certainly isn't as backwater as their Atlesian neighbours and schools said when covering the island as a topic of conversation and learning – after all these people have their own electronic devices selling from stores with their own connection of what he learned to be the island's version of the CCT, focused more on the local region than international.
As he signed up for work in construction jobs to gather money, he is old enough at the Age of 16 thank you very much, despite the health risks of having to carry and work the labour.
What was surprising to him was seeing humans, from some place where he definitely knew did not appear in the maps from back home, working together and even cracking jokes and conversations with the faunus workers. Of course, they spoke with an unheard of Atlas accent, but he even caught some faunus attempting to speak their own language while having an off accent compared to these new humans.
Different from the Kingdoms, he welcomes the change.
"Yo, Theodore!" His supervisor arrives as the day ends. "The job's fine enough for the Bull Moose himself?"
"Yes, supervisor." Theo didn't understand the reference, aside from the fact it's related with his Faunus traits, but he turned around from his task of placing down the steel cables that was said to strengthen the building it is for.
The supervisor looks at the work he was doing in front of him.
"Great work! Hard work as usual, Theo." She nods her head in approval.
"Need'd the job." Theo shrugged as he turned around to continue his work.
"Say," The supervisor draws out as a thought comes to her. "Ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt?"
"Never heard." Theo shakes his head, continuing to focus on his work.
He jumps as she grapples him.
"Really now? I must show you!" She says cheerfully as she leads him towards the break room, his co-workers looking at him in pity – while some give some jeers with an amused smirk as he looks back at them with confusion.
"..The principles for which we stand, are the principles of fair play, and the Square Deal for every man and every woman in the United States.." The voice recording of a man a century ago (and wasn't that crazy? the people of Earth had recording technology longer than Remnant ever had?) continues onwards.
At first he was not impressed with this man, who was noted for some problems relating to other races and what not. But video after video – at his friend's prompting, he continued to grow a more different point of the man, an abstract painting of one person in a world of differing personalities, ideas, and an ever changing landscape of nations, peoples, and systems with their own problems, solutions, and favourites and not favourites.
Roosevelt was one of them, but he was more than some painting that came from a comfortable place of birth with no suffering or facing struggle. He sought fair play in a world that refused to play by those rules, in a way mirroring Atlas and from what he knew of the wider world outside the Pact seeing nothing wrong with destroying the working man and woman. While he may not have successes as the President of the United States, he developed the foundations and developed the already existing ones to allow the Government to combat issues of those unwilling to play fair in a competitive market, and his successor and relative expanded on them further than Theodore could ever imagine.
He turns his mind away from his thoughts of the man towards his group of friends that he gathered here today, with the majority from places like Vale, Vacuo, Mistral, and those that managed to escape Atlas.
"I did not expect much from this high pitched man, after all anyone can espouse the same amount of words and did not deliver – or even did not follow through their words in favour of keeping the old order of unfair play and practices. Did not help the people in favour of the pockets running the big trusts of Atlas and the other nations that claim to be for equality – well if one thinks about it, they did practise two facets of equality: Equality of Suffering and Equality of Exploitation. The anti-Faunus sentiment was all a smokescreen, for I saw humans tossed out in the streets, the fields, and for some the oceans bordering Mantle in the Kingdom of Atlas for similar reasons as those of our own were tossed away for.
"I understood that old saying of "Life is unfair", but why does no one try to challenge it to make sure that fairness did arrive in life anyway? If anything in my humble opinion, it is the words of a defeatist man in a defeatist world, seeing the wrong and taking pleasure out of the carcass of the once living and continuous world. Are these people willing to spit on the blood, soils, sweat, and tears of the struggling and their ancestors that made sure the world was more fair than before? If there are such things as corruptors, why not become the non-corruptors?
"If there is one thing I can conclude from that whole sentiment, it'd be this: Life is unfair for those unwilling to band together, those who are unwilling to pick themselves up, and those that imagine themselves the whole Universe when there are more universes across the world. Unair for those that sought to see profit for free without working once a single day and waking moment. Poverty is rampant and once made those using the systems take them for granted into those willing to work their hardest to make sure they can never again live in such a lifestyle again. It is there that those that seek to abuse power for their own image of destruction and never ending darkness took their power – they prey on the weak for their wealth of numbers rather than the wealth of peoples and their true value beyond decimals and integers – worthless and being a clog to a machine that settles the minds of the world with smokescreens to hide their unfair practices against the common person and the common government, and at times even infiltrating them.
That does not excuse what the other two can do to the third, or even against one another, but that does not mean they could not collaborate to make sure that the people of the state – the free peoples, will never again be subjugated and blinded by those preying on them again." Theo stops as he looks at them with passion in his heart and voice.
"Remnant today is a powderkeg, the old order smoking in a crucible. The leftovers from a time when the King of Vale did not rise, sought to keep control and remain in power in the councils that rule the countries of Remnant. Tensions have risen since the last time war was brought to everywhere that can be fought: The Cities, Oceans, Plains, Hills, everywhere you can think of. Even Menagerie saw some of the fighting themselves between opposing sides. Technology progressed rapidly since the last war, with many theories of war soon to be part of the test.
"The supremacists see this as their moment to rise, colluding with the used to be nobilities and families that want to hold onto their receding influence and authority – seeing it the only way to still hold onto them. They struck when the Kingdoms were vulnerable, their people wanting to blame for misfortunes that were at times within their own power, and at times not of their own. Fear mongers taking away good friends and what once was somewhat peaceful into turmoil and abuse.
"This all came from their decisions since the Great War to kick the Faunus out of their Kingdoms and into the place we call Menagerie. Let's face it, many of us here and those moving into the island still sought to return home outside these shores and into the other powers. That is understandable, for their and your homes were taken without complaint, laws enacted that made it so that the only option there is to move in here, and other factors that made our people forcibly stay on an island they do not see as their home.
"But, much more can be built here than waiting for the time they take the final blow and make you and I the only Faunus remaining on the continent." He looks at them solemnly, many of his friends looking angered, some sharing the same emotion as him at these thoughts.
"Here we stand!" Theo says to them with a raised voice, a tone of firmness in his voice. "As people who seek to do good in the world around them! To fight against the tyranny and oppression of the common citizen of nations whose ideas can be spread and uplift the hopes and hearts to combat against them! They fear us and those that suffer with us, repulse all opposition that isn't Huntsmen or Huntresses! The principles of which we will stand, and those of the next generation, shall furthermore allow the fairness that became trapped without anyone defending it to be freed once again!
"I expect each and everyone of you, within this new progressive body, to participate within and to conduct yourselves as good citizens of a state of the common people. To act accordingly outside and within, collaborate and make sure the voices of the people are heard and represented in a manner of fair play." He finishes his speech clenches his fist as he places it to his chest.
He is answered with cries of agreement amongst them.
"It is in our duty, and it is the prelude, to guide and make the world a more fair place to live in." He calls out with a solemn nod. "Whether that takes years or perhaps decades and centuries to do so, it is in our time towards creating the foundation of where the new progressive movement shall be headed for, and to develop it further: A Square Deal for every Human and Faunus, for every man and woman."
N/A: Was planning to dedicate a chapter towards music until I just stopped and thought to myself "What happens when a sickly yet strong up-front Moose Faunus with the name of 'Theo' were to wind up introduced to the legacy and the progressive movement of one Theodore Roosevelt?"
Like TR, he doesn't see businesses as bad really (a misconception many thinks of Theodore Roosevelt), what he has against them is the matters towards fair play competitions, in which some during TR's time (and currently in Remnant) did not practice at all. That expands over towards Progressive Party Era TR that focused on building more rapport with the common people, then onwards with reforms and ideas outside and inside the United States that practically expands the progressive movement of Menagerie (With its minor branches becoming its own once established in the other Kingdoms).
Therefore, a location change will not stop a Bull Moose. Theo at first skeptic about the man, and he has his reasons to believe so, but besides the negative/misgiving aspects of Roosevelt, he saw a great inspiration to do good. With Roosevelt, he becomes introduced to FDR, and so on the concepts of social and political reform over the course of the 19th to 21st Century, more so the 20th Century.
Now, I wonder how the Progressive Movement will impact the Faunus Rights Revolution (Whether that be subtly or unsubtly).
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Well hopefully Adam and the rest of the White Fang won't go down their dark path here.
Speaking of which we should definitely send guards to help protect the white fang while Ghira is in charge.
That is if the white fang were to form. The faunus revolution is in the air, and since our nation of Taiwan and Menagerie are allied as the tiger pact are together. The other kingdoms will not miss this new alliance once word reaches out, as far as they know Menagerie is a backwater island with no advanced technology. Atlas and those of the human supremacists groups are bound to see this tiger pact as a threat, for Atlas there is a potential military power that will challenge it's own, and for the human supremacists it is a nation rising to be a faunus only kingdom( well from their perspective only, if they are die hard fanatics and not pay attention to Taiwan)and if we are to help the White fang we would need to use special operations forces and agents within the kingdom of mistral. It is the only kingdom/country that is nearby Menagerie, and I'm honestly curious as to how Ghira belladonna would be raised in a community with advanced earth technology, that is not so reliant on dust and that technology is much different from most of Remnant.
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And earth history he can use to help his cause as well, cause I can see him studying some historical figures of earth in order to figure out a non violent way.
Most likely from the history of America, that's the only country I can see him mostly learning from since we know most of the history. Especially it's racism even if Abraham Lincoln abolished it after the American Revolution some time ago. But there could be many other references for those fighting for equality around Earth at the time.
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Martin Luther King would definitely be on the nose, although I'm curious on what other people he can learn of, maybe Gandhi (hopefully not the nuclear civilization one).
Wait do you guys think that manga has spread a good amount from Japan yet? Since it is the time of the cold war in the late years of it.
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Cold war??
Taiwan is from the modern era, just no RWBY.
Oh shoot, sorry about that. But still do you think the whole manga and Anime side of things would be popular in most of Remnant just like how it spread to be popular in parts around the world? I can imagine Yang and Ruby being fans of some anime and manga, same with the Schnee family if we don't change circumstances like Weiss and her siblings have a much better father then in Cannon.
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Well depends on what kind of manga that people have cause I can definitely see some wanting to either save or copy them before they try to introduce manga to the rest of remnant.
Although Blake will definitely be the first one to read manga if we reach the canon era.
Oh for sure. I can imagine Blake being a manga fan/nerd as it won't be out of character since in Cannon era she is a fan of books assuming to be drama and such. And the menagerie faunus would be the first ones to be introduced to new manga and anime once most of the items are set up for production, and distribution of them.
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Well at least she'll have a lot of earth literature to read.
I wonder how many would be fans of the mecha genre, especially Gundam.
Although I can see Taiwan having a bit of trouble making some merchandise of many shows, mangas, and etc. So collectors would definitely help make some figures or how to make them right.
Maybe there would be some manga/anime companies that are branched in Taiwan before the isekai event. I can see there would be a formation of Taiwan versions of them, and that they would branch out to Menagerie first.
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Well hopefully those branches have any ideas on how the stories will go for the magnas right now, cause I'm sure the fans will not be happy to miss anything from current animes/mangas.
Hopefully they'll inspire a faunus to be either a creator for Remnants first own manga.