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"...and won't someone please think of the megacorporations?!", sobbed a thoroughly distraught Weiss, as she sat at the breakfast table. Tears spattered her caviar and gold leaf parfait, dimpling the otherwise taut surface of the dragonfruit couli knapped delicately over what was normally her favourite amuse bouche.

Perhaps the next 6 courses might cheer her up a little better...
 
Vindictus said:
Different kinds of bad, and also we've got no proof beyond Little Miss Terrorist's "Well everyone knows that your family is corrupt" that there's even anything going on at all, and while I hate to write off whatever Blake got told while she was part of Catgirl ISIS...
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True. The revelation that Blake is a (former?) member of Fauni for the Extinction of Humans does mean that what she told us about the Schnee corporation may be much less reliable than it seemed at the time.

I guess we'll see in season 2?
 
Leila Hann said:
True. The revelation that Blake is a (former?) member of Fauni for the Extinction of Humans does mean that what she told us about the Schnee corporation may be much less reliable than it seemed at the time.

I guess we'll see in season 2?
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That implies you're going to make it through Volume 1 without blowing a gasket. Watching your reviews it doesn't seem to be doing good things for your blood pressure. (Or the rabid forumites you have to put up with.)
 
Leila Hann said:
True. The revelation that Blake is a (former?) member of Fauni for the Extinction of Humans does mean that what she told us about the Schnee corporation may be much less reliable than it seemed at the time.

I guess we'll see in season 2?
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Blake's credibility in this area is, at best, badly damaged by her membership of the local Human Hunting Association, but given the quality of the writing so far I wouldn't be surprised if CarSchneegie Steel Corp. ended up being totally unsympathetic anyway.
 
Aphoristus said:
You're still keeping an optimistic attitude. I like that about you.
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My prediction at this point is that its going to turn out that the Schnees really are using faunus slave labor in outlying/unpoliced areas, but that the White Fang will also be portrayed as deranged genocidal fanatics and there will be no saner faunus liberation org as an alternative to them.

Consequently, we are left with the message that while systemic oppression of minorities is bad, minority organizations who try to do anything about it are even worse, and the only way to actually make things better is through the milquetoast actions of progressive-leaning members of the dominant social group.

This is my hypothesis. It may be wrong. I hope its wrong.
 
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Leila Hann said:
True. The revelation that Blake is a (former?) member of Fauni for the Extinction of Humans does mean that what she told us about the Schnee corporation may be much less reliable than it seemed at the time.

I guess we'll see in season 2?
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Remember (since Blake's character trailer is the only one that's actually important), she broke up with her dumb horned Vergil/Jetstream Sam OC Donut Steele boyfriend (c'mon he literally copies some of Vergil's moves from DMC3SE) over protecting the unseen crew of a Dust train truckin' through the night - and given the breathless ease with which she cut ties with the only social group she knows over randos, when she's not getting up in Der Fuhrer's Face she's probably quite down on the whole genocide bag.

EDIT: This is not a spoiler statement, I don't fucking know nor care what her actual relationship with Donut Steele is, I'm calling him her boyfriend because she was clearly his titninja before managing to throw off the shackles of chattelship at the last possible moment.
 
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Claudette Savagely said:
"...and won't someone please think of the megacorporations?!", sobbed a thoroughly distraught Weiss, as she sat at the breakfast table. Tears spattered her caviar and gold leaf parfait, dimpling the otherwise taut surface of the dragonfruit couli knapped delicately over what was normally her favourite amuse bouche.

Perhaps the next 6 courses might cheer her up a little better...
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could someone help me regain control of myself i'm in the middle of designing the rest of Weiss' breakfast menu as referenced in this shitpost

what doth life
 
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Leila Hann said:
but that the White Fang will also be portrayed as deranged genocidal fanatics and there will be no saner faunus liberation org as an alternative to them.
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'Sucks air through teeth and looks away'
You are absolutely goddamn right. Though not sure if this counts as a spoiler, since the first episode had the tv talk about the White Fang riot early on so we know that it's at least a violent group.
Claudette Savagely said:
Blake's credibility in this area is, at best, badly damaged by her membership of the local Human Hunting Association, but given the quality of the writing so far I wouldn't be surprised if CarSchneegie Steel Corp. ended up being totally unsympathetic anyway.
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Considering Whitley, who literally shows up out of nowhere despite him being extremely important in her arc, has no character besides 'Antagonist for Weiss' I wouldn't really be surprised.
Though I'd be less surprised if the work conditions aren't actually bad, and that results in a White Fang and Schee Dust Company team up.

Would it be stupid? Yes.

Have that stopped them from future stupid story elements to use for the White Fang arcs? NO.
 
Did somebody explain in the show (or outside of it) why they picked the name "White Fang" for their terrorist association, anyway?

Did even they realise that "Black Fangsters" was possibly too much on the nose? So why pick something with the name "white" in it? Picking it for its "purity" annotations might just be a bad idea... Well, unless you were trying to paint them as baddies the entire time.

...Please don't tell me they're referencing the Jack London novel. That would be so fucking stupid.
 
Fernandel said:
Did somebody explain in the show (or outside of it) why they picked the name "White Fang" for their terrorist association, anyway?

Did even they realise that "Black Fangsters" was possibly too much on the nose? So why pick something with the name "white" in it? Picking it for its "purity" annotations might just be a bad idea... Well, unless you were trying to paint them as baddies the entire time.

...Please don't tell me they're referencing the Jack London novel. That would be so fucking stupid.
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My guess: They are called the White Fang because fangs are white. That sounds about right for the RWBY Creative Team.
 
Honestly kinda feel for Weise as you can tell how she grew up by her little dialogue. Despite how you joke about her being racist, kinda think anyone would be somewhat racist if a group continued to try and kill you and your entire family. She's not even the one that's ordering her companies practices and I bet unrelated people were also killed by them.

White Fang just should have killed her father so she becomes batman instead.
 
Fernandel said:
Did somebody explain in the show (or outside of it) why they picked the name "White Fang" for their terrorist association, anyway?

Did even they realise that "Black Fangsters" was possibly too much on the nose? So why pick something with the name "white" in it? Picking it for its "purity" annotations might just be a bad idea... Well, unless you were trying to paint them as baddies the entire time.

...Please don't tell me they're referencing the Jack London novel. That would be so fucking stupid.
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Some have speculated that the name is a reference to the Jack London novel of the same name. Or a reference to a terrorist group in the Gundam series of the same name.
 
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I know we're all supposed to be talking about Weiss 'My favreiot drinks are Diet Racism and Fanta' Schnee, but am I the only one who finds it annoying how similar Mr. Monkeytail's* face is to Jaune's?

Fernandel said:
Did somebody explain in the show (or outside of it) why they picked the name "White Fang" for their terrorist association, anyway?\
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A poorly thought out Gundam Wing reference?

*If they wanted me to seriously call him Sun Wukong they should have got Donnie Yen.
 
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OverReactionGuy said:
Honestly kinda feel for Weise as you can tell how she grew up by her little dialogue. Despite how you joke about her being racist, kinda think anyone would be somewhat racist if a group continued to try and kill you and your entire family. She's not even the one that's ordering her companies practices and I bet unrelated people were also killed by them.

White Fang just should have killed her father so she becomes batman instead.
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Nah, she'd become Owlman. Either that or Flashpoint Joker.

-In a soon-to-be vacant warehouse-
*Weiss dancing among faunus corpses*
Ohhhh, we're painting the White Fang red~
We're painting the White Fang red~
Won't you please, get on your knees, so I can take your head~
 
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Uncle said:
Some have speculated that the name is a reference to the Jack London novel of the same name. Or a reference to a terrorist group in the Gundam series of the same name.
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I've seen people speculate its a reference to the novel White Fang.
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I'm, if that's the case, it might have been a wee bit poorly chosen, considering that at the novel's end, the wild wolfdog White Fang is tamed by a human master and lives out his days as the daddy of a bunch of puppies he fathered with the local sheepdog Collie. Which is an interesting thing to name your racist beastfolk terrorist organisation after, I guess? With no implications at all?

(not accidentally naming organisations in insensitive ways when dealing with pseudo-race issues, no sir)
 
Vindictus said:
K, seriously though, I'm curious as to why everyone has jumped from "unethical business practices" to "literally slavery"?
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Because that's what the fanfics say. They also say that faunus go into heat and are irresistibly attracted to dumb blondes who don't know what aura is.

Leila Hann said:
My prediction at this point is that its going to turn out that the Schnees really are using faunus slave labor in outlying/unpoliced areas, but that the White Fang will also be portrayed as deranged genocidal fanatics and there will be no saner faunus liberation org as an alternative to them.

Consequently, we are left with the message that while systemic oppression of minorities is bad, minority organizations who try to do anything about it are even worse, and the only way to actually make things better is through the milquetoast actions of progressive-leaning members of the dominant social group.
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Yes way back in the day when we didn't have so many seasons, I was there in the trenches complaining about how imbalanced the portrayal was. As of your current episode in Season 1, we've established:
On the One Hand: The White Fang does terrorist attacks, apparently wants to kill all humans, that they kidnapped and executed members of Weiss' company and family, etc etc.
On the Other Hand: Bunnygirl's ears got pulled please think of the bunnygirls.

All bad or mean things that happen to faunus either happen offscreen in ill-defined way (fighting a war for rights at some unspecified past time, being herded into fantasy Madagascar except every faunus we see wasn't, etc etc) or are done to them by obvious bullies and assholes like Cardin.

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Fernandel said:
Did somebody explain in the show (or outside of it) why they picked the name "White Fang" for their terrorist association, anyway?
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Canonically its explained that it is referring to their rejection of violence, hence an unbloodied white fang. Overall this just tells me that Ghira is terrible at names given that it became far more fitting after his MLK approach got abandoned in favor of the IRA approach. This is probably why he lost control. All the recruits were like "we're called White Fang, that's badass, when do we get to blow stuff up?" then threw Ghira out when he admitted that they aren't actually blowing anything up.
 
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