#and especially since you try to possess colonize and control my own characters as your own- you didnt even know any of them

[snekdood]

really funny my abusive ex engages in invalidating my identity, especially since thats what they accuse me of doing to them. its almost like you made that up and just wanted an excuse to invalidate me.

[littlemisssquiggles]

RWBY Musings #48: The possible mystical connection between the Faunus and the existence of magic in Remnant. Were the Faunus formerly animals that were made human by magic?

@bloomfireprincess asked “I love your musings! Especially the possible origins of the silver eyed warriors! But how do you think the Faunus fit into it? 

Maybe they were the first beings created by the elder brother, and he created the silver eyed after to protect his creation and the world? What if that's the deep seeded resentment, that they were first but pushed to the background by the humans?” 

Squiggles Answers:

@bloomfireprincess Hey Bloom. Though my original intent was to wait until my original files were salvaged, as of this week, I’m still awaiting a positive update on the state of my old system. So given my recent streak of RWBY Remarks, I figured it’d be more favourable to just resume working on my musing posts even if it meant starting from scratch.

 I know I said I had started your answers before in a previous file but I think the theories I shared in this new post exceeded my previous points. So I think you might like them.So here I am, at long last with my response to your questions. So without keeping you waiting any longer, let’s dive right into it:

Silver Lining

“How do I think the Faunus fit into the origins of the Silver Eyed Warriors? Were the Faunus the first beings created by the Elder Brother? Were Silver Eyes created to protect the Faunus as the first creations of the God of Light?”

These are some great questions Bloom. While I do like your idea about the Faunus possibly being one of the first forms of life created by the God of Light, however I personally don’t think this is the case. Not to discourage you or debunk your theory by the way.

As I said, it’s a great hunch. I just have my own idea of how the Faunus fit into the history of Remnant and sadly, my concept involves the Faunus’ origin coming a little later into the world.

Similar to the First People of Remnant, I also don’t believe that the Silver Eyed Warriors shared any ties to the Faunus either. Just as I described in my original post on the Silver Eyes, my main guess is still that they were an ancient race of beings that existed in a time before the current Remnant, in a previous world that was the God of Light’s first attempt at a planet filled with life that was soon thwarted by the God of Darkness and his monstrous Grimm. 

I still think the Moon of Remnant is a relic of that original world that was partially destroyed after the Brother Gods first opposed one another and pitted their strongest creations: the Creatures of Grimm and the Silver Eyed Warriors against each other in a War that hurt the planet.

Or…perhaps the Moon was formerly the home world to the original Silver Eyed Warriors that the God of Light had intended to make into Remnant or another New World with the Silver Eyes as its first people. However all of that amounted to nothing because the God of Darkness sent forth his monsters to destroy everything. Either way I strongly believe there is a deeper connection between the Moon of Remnant and the Silver Eyed Warriors.

This makes me wonder something now. I wonder if the Creatures of Grimm weren’t the God of Darkness’ most dangerous creations but his second. When I think of the character of Salem and consider the uniqueness of the type of creature she is, it makes me wonder if Salem might’ve been part of another ancient race from the same era as the Silver Eyes.

In RWBY Musing #39, I shared a theory about Salem previously being a human woman who was part of the First People of Remnant. I theorized that in her past life, Salem was Ales (or Elsa as some of you preferred) and she was the partner and lover of Ozpin. 

The Eve to his Adam as I speculated that in his very first lifetime, Oz was the First Man of Remnant under an original name of his own that I dubbed Emmanuel. In a similar fashion to Eve in the Bible, Salem was manipulated by a Grimm that resulted in her being banished by the Gods after trying to steal the Relics. Later on, Salem becomes fully possessed by said Grimm, turning her into the Wicked Witch and proclaimed Mother of the Grimm that we know her to be. That was one theory I shared for Salem’s beginning. Now I have another assumption.

I’ve brought up Grimm-like human hybrids before, correct? What if…before Remnant, before even the Creatures of Grimm, there were others like Salem. For lack of a better term, I’m going to refer to these beings as the Grimmoire (cause why not).

What if…in the forgotten past that Salem once quoted back in V1, in the first incarnation of the World that became the Moon, the Brother Gods feuded over the fate of this old world and sent their strongest creations to war: The Silver Eyed Warriors and the Grimmoire.

It could help justify how Salem is able to communicate and control the Grimm. Her being part of an original race born from the same dark powers as the Grimm---the very first one of their kind---then it would make as much sense for her to lead them as it would if Salem was just a superior type of Grimm possessing a human body. It could also explain how Salem can ‘create’ the Grimm.

What if…Salem was even the Queen of the Grimmoire---the First and only surviving member of her race with powers beyond that of any of her kind. Powers that made her just as great as a god. A goddess as Tyrian once put it.

It could also explain Salem’s interest in Ruby. Ruby is a Silver Eyed Warrior and as far as I know, the only one in existence in Remnant. If Salem is a Grimmoire (granted that my theory is canon) and the Grimmoire are like the Grimm then the Silver Eyes are their main weakness. Salem’s weakness. It’d make sense for Salem to want to see how her ‘old nemesis’ held up in the current Remnant especially if she’s following up from the previous one she encountered, referring to Summer Rose.

Pulling from RWBY Musing #46, I believe Ozpin sent Summer Rose on her last mission which got her killed. That mission was to defeat Salem once and for all. But Summer failed and died because she wasn’t strong enough as a Silver Eyed Warrior. Now that burden and responsibility has fallen to Ruby who has the chance to become a fully-realized Silver Eyes with the power to put an end to Salem. 

Buuuuut…I’m getting off track here.

Returning to the Faunus---it’s as I said, I don’t see a connection between the Silver Eyes and the Faunus. If it were anyone else, like the Brother Gods or Ozpin or even Salem, then yes, most definitely. But not the Faunus. I believe the Faunus have their own origin that is completely separate from the Silver Eyes.

That being said I do like your idea of other Silver Eyes being reborn into the current Remnant to be the protectors of mankind. It ties in with a little follow-up hunch I have about the God of Light creating a couple of Silver Eyes to defend the First People of Remnant and their first kingdom. Perhaps it were even the Silver Eyes who inspired and helped shape Remnant’s first legion of huntsmen.

However I’m not sure how that will fit since in the main series, apart from Ozpin, no one else seems to know about the Silver Eyes. As for the Faunus, I’m starting to think they might’ve come later in Remnant’s history. At least a little ways after Mankind had already started colonizing Remnant.

Man and Faunus

A lot of the history surrounding the Faunus and their resentment towards man was actually already explained in World of Remnant. The Faunus are basically indigenous people of Remnant. According to the episode on the Faunus; they were first discovered by early man at some point in Remnant’s history. 

But because of Man misinterpreting them as a threat due to their animalistic traits, the Faunus; who were once a free race left to roam Remnant as their home, they were instead driven into a life of danger and ridicule at the hands of the very man who mistook their kind for monsters.

These are some quotes on the History and Biology of the Faunus and their connexion to Mankind taken from RWBY V5 C4.5 (World of Remnant: Faunus):

“…As far as everyone’s aware, Faunus have been around as long as mankind; if not a little longer. History gets a little fuzzy past a certain point. But we do know that their kind and ours are completely compatible from a biological standpoint…”

“…Scientists are still scratching their heads when it comes to a lot about the Faunus. But science isn’t the problem; it’s how we all get along, or in this case, how we don’t…”

“…Early man was scared to death of the Faunus and honestly, it’s not too hard to sympathize with that. Seeing something that looks like you and acts like you walk out of the forest and reveal a pair of fangs can be a…little upsetting…

Like most things Man doesn’t understand, all sorts of rumors and stories surround the Faunus. People avoided them like the plague, pushing them out of settlements and sometimes even hunting them down.

Man began to outnumber the Faunus and the Faunus began to consider Man as nothing more than a hostile species.

These clashes between species were unavoidable as land that was safe from the Grimm was in constant short supply. But it was the Grimm that finally brought Humans and Faunus together for the first time. A village in Sanus fell under attack and the reason anyone survived was because the Humans and Faunus united against their common enemy. It was a step in the right direction but it didn’t fix everything.

Once humanity learnt that they weren’t so different from the Faunus, they still used those differences as an excuse to exploit and alienate them. The trade men of the Faunus differed around the world and things wouldn’t improve much for them until the Great War.

Vale and Vacuo against Mantle and Mistral. A war unlike anything anyone had ever seen. And when it was over, the world was desperate to find compromises to ensure they never see the likes of it again.

The Faunus were awarded equal rights as citizens of Remnant. And as an apology, they were given an entire continent of their own to do with as they pleased. There were some who saw this as fair and just. But many saw it for what it really was---a slap in the face from a nation of sore losers. And so Menagerie was born.

There’s still Faunus all over the world. Though the fair equality they were promised varies from place to place, but Menagerie will always be their safe haven. Here’s the thing though, you can only push and prod people so much before they reach a tipping point. And when you pack those people together, it just makes it all the easier for them to get organized and get even…”

 This info actually ties into what Blake explained to Sun when they first arrived in Menagerie back in V4.

“…We asked to be equal, to be treated just like everyone else. Instead we were given an island and told to make do. So we did the best we could. We came together and we made a home where any Faunus could feel welcome. But this island, this town, will always be a reminder that we're still not equal. That we're still second class citizens…"

To once live in an free open world only to have mankind basically just give you one patch of land when the entire world used to be fair game to be shared by both man and Faunus---when you look at it from that standpoint, as a viewer I don’t blame the Faunus for being displeased.

I mean, speaking as someone of African descent from a nation that was once colonialized under the British before we gained our own independence, I could imagine being very displeased if suddenly all the black people or perhaps all the people of colour in the world were forced into one single area on the map and told to make do with the landscape. All the while still being treated as outcasts by the population if they dared tried to make a life in another area. That sort of life wouldn’t be the most ideal.

But that’s only one aspect of the Faunus’s history. The only thing that wasn’t answered about the Faunus was where they came from. You would think that the easy answer would be that Man and Faunus were cut from the same cloth as both creations of the Brother Gods, right? But what’s odd to me is that there was no clarification of that during Qrow’s rendition of the Tale of the Brother Gods story.

The Tale of the Brother Gods, as told by Qrow Branwen in V4, C8:

"…Not many people are super religious these days. This world's been around for a long time, long enough that people have created dozens of gods. But if you believe Ozpin, two of them are actually real. They were brothers. 

The older sibling, the God of Light, found joy in creating forces of life. Meanwhile, the younger brother, the God of Darkness, spent his time creating forces of destruction.

As you can imagine, they both had pretty different ideas about how things should go. The older one would spend his days creating water, plants, wildlife. And at night, his brother would wake to see all the things that the elder had made and become disgusted. To counteract his brother's creations, the God of Darkness brought drought, fire, famine, all that he could do to rid Remnant of life. But life always returned.

So one night, the younger brother went and made something. Something that share his innate desire to destroy anything and everything.

The Creatures of Grimm. You guessed it.

The older brother had finally had enough. Knowing that their feud couldn't last like this forever, he proposed that they make one final creation. Together. Something that they could both be proud of. Their masterpiece. Younger brother agreed. This last great creation would be given the power to both create and destroy. It would be given the gift of knowledge, so that it could learn about itself and the world around it. And most importantly, it would be given the power to choose, to have free will to take everything it had learned and decide which path to follow: The Path of Light or the Path of Darkness. And that is how humanity came to be…"

At the end of the Brother Gods story, Qrow mentions that they made ‘humanity’ together. Sure you could make the argument that when Qrow said ‘humanity’ he was referring to both Man and the Faunus, right?

However to make sure, I checked back V4 C8 at the exact point when Qrow brought up the Brother Gods creating Humanity. In the final shot when he was describing the Brother’s collaborated creation, we get one image with a group of silhouettes to represent humanity being born in Remnant.

However…I don’t recognize any Faunus in this shot. How strange that all of these shapes appear human and not one of them represents the Faunus species. Either the Faunus were omitted from this depiction because a CRWBY production artist forget to add some Faunus to the shot and no one noticed till after the episode was made (which I doubt) or…it was done intentionally to show that when the Brothers made humanity, they only made Mankind. Not the Faunus.

This is, however, slightly contradicted a bit by what Qrow said on the Faunus in World of Remnant: Faunus.

“…As far as everyone’s aware, Faunus have been around as long as mankind; if not a little longer. History gets a little fuzzy past a certain point. But we do know that their kind and ours are completely compatible from a biological standpoint…”

Then again…the wording ‘as far as everyone’s aware’ gives me the impression that this is more a common assumption in Remnant as opposed to an actual fact. As far as any Remnant historian is concerned, the Faunus were around for as long as man. Simple deduction but there aren’t any further provided evidence to support this. As a matter of fact, the show even goes out of its way to explain it that way--- as if no one is truly clear on the exact origins of the Faunus either. That’s a cool touch.

Additionally, the Faunus being around as long as mankind; if not a little longer doesn’t necessarily mean that the Faunus came before or even around the same time Mankind was born. If anything, I think it more hints that the Faunus might have longer lifespans that allow them to outlive the average human.

Who knows? Perhaps there are ancient Faunus in the modern Remnant who have lived for decades and can probably shed light on history surrounding their own kind not known to others and the audience. While there isn’t much more canonical evidence from the series to support this assumption, there isn’t anything to denounce it either. So for now, it remains a possibility.

The impression I get here is that there is no clear origin of where exactly the Faunus came from. As I said, the practical conclusion would’ve been to assume that all Faunus were a created by the Brother Gods.

However, the weird part is that each time RWBY delves into the Faunus; it’s presented in a manner that makes me assume otherwise. Heck, the very first line that Qrow says in World of Remnant Faunus is:

“…Y’know most of us spend a lot of time talking about Mankind versus Grimm, but technically, there is a third party in the mix. The Faunus…”

My point is that there’s some other underlining mystery surrounding where the Faunus came from. A little extra thing we have yet to learn about them. I mean I guess it could be a ruse set up by the CRWBY Writers to subvert the audience from the actual clear truth that the Faunus are being treated as inferior to Man despite sharing the same origins. When you look at it that way, it makes sense especially in the context of the narrative the series has already created for the Faunus.

Still… I wish to divert from that and toss in another potential consideration that could also be an outcome.

What if…the Brother Gods only created mankind and it was another entity that made the Faunus and brought them into Remnant?

An interesting ideology, yes? I’m probably reading too much into this but it’s just a feeling I have based on all the info I’ve gathered on the Faunus so far from the canon series.

But now pegs the question: If the Brother Gods didn’t create the Faunus then who did and with what?

Here's what I think.

 Where Have All the Animals Gone?

I’m not saying that animals don’t exist in Remnant. However what I do find a little peculiar is that we haven’t seen much animals in RWBY.

I mean we’ve seen one or two animals establishing that they do exist in the World of Remnant. It’s just that…I find it weird, not to mention ironic, that we see more of the Faunus and the Creatures of Grimm than actual legit real animals. I find this funny since both species have been called out for their animalistic similarities.

“…Each Faunus has a single animalistic trait; some more apparent than others…” ---World of Remnant: Faunus

“… Many ancient cultures believed the Creatures of Grimm to be animals possessed by evil spirits or perhaps the spirits of tortured animals themselves. However, further study---as well as the discovery of newer, more horrific forms of Grimm---does not support this hypothesis. With new creatures discovered every day, scientists perpetually find themselves with more questions than answers…”---World of Remnant: Grimm

I can actually count the real animals I’ve spotted in RWBY thus far on my fingers alone. There is RWBY’s number one indestructible Grimm-bashing power Corgi, Zwei, who everyone knows. There was that one bird (I think it was a crow) that Ruby accidentally knocked down back in V1 after Ozpin launched all the students off the cliff into the Emerald Forest. There was the horse that Fall Maiden Amber was seen riding in V3.

And lastly, there were the numerous flocks of birds that we’ve spotted throughout volumes and character shorts between the first trilogy and the Mistral Arc. I mean at least there are birds, right?

After that…that’s it. I can’t recall seeing anymore. Correct me if I’m wrong if you’ve spotted others. Like I said, we know animals do exist in Remnant since the characters have food and products that come from animals like milk and meat. So at least we know there are animals raised as livestock for food. But why haven’t we seen more? You get what I’m saying, right?

For the love of Oum, Oscar Pine is a character who literally grew up on a farm and still we don’t so much as see a single cow or chicken or sheep roaming said farm. Seriously, where are all the animals?

Either the budget required for the CRWBY to model, rig and animate animals into RWBY is so high that it’s cumbersome to dare try or…there is an actual narrative world-building reason why we don’t see a lot more real animals roaming Remnant.

The smart alec answer might be ‘Squiggles, we don’t see any real animals in RWBY because real animals aren’t important to the story of RWBY. Doi!’ to which, I say, you’re probably 100% right in that regards and I’m most likely just overthinking things as usual.

However…this squiggle meister is curious about something. Let’s say… there is a connection between the Faunus and the animals of Remnant.

What if…and this is a big if…the Faunus---the First Faunus originated from animals given human likeness by someone who possessed the power to do so. What I’m trying to say is that I think the Faunus were created using magic.

Think about it. What’s the closest thing in the universe of RWBY to the power of the Brother Gods? The answer is magic.

As demonstrated by Professor Ozpin, if magic has the potential to grant humans the ability to turn into animals like in the case of the Branwen Twins. Then who’s to say the reverse isn’t possible where magic can turn animals into what we know as the Faunus?

This is why I don’t think there’s a connection between the Silver Eyed Warriors and the Faunus. I think the Silver Eyes predate even the Faunus. If I had to make a list of beings in Remnant based on who I believe were created first, it would go:

The Creatures of Grimm (by the God of Darkness), the Silver Eyed Warriors (by the God of Light again to firstly combat the Grimm in the God’s Feud), Mankind (by both Brother Gods working together) and then the Faunus.

This is only my assumption but I think the Faunus came into the picture after Mankind had already started populating the world. My only thing is that I’m not sure what Remnant was like in the ancient days after the world was made and the First People of Remnant walked the earth starting to create civilization.

If magic does exist in the RWBY-verse then, just like the Silver Eyed Warriors, was magic or the use of the mystical arts another thing that was been lost and forgotten to time?

I mean Qrow did imply once that Remnant had been around for a very long time. So who knows what kind of eras existed in the world before arriving at the modern time that we recognize.

Perhaps there was a period in Remnant’s history where magic was a prominent thing so it was more recognized by the general public as opposed to the current story where the very prospect of magic sounds so farfetched, even the main characters are in disbelief of its existence.

“ ...Legends; stories scattered through time, mankind has grown quite fond of recounting the exploits of heroes and villains; forgetting so easily that we are remnants, by products of a forgotten past...” --- RWBY VI CI

Perhaps magic was more known during the time of the First People of Remnant, a time when the Brother Gods made their presence more known to the world as I described in RWBY Musing #39.

Or…perhaps magic was just something that only a handful of people knew existed and could only vouch for it after encountering the one being in the Remnant we know possesses magic.

Or…perhaps the skill for one to use magic derives from years of training one’s Aura to the point that they become more than just a mere mortal and awaken newer kinds of powers.

“…Unlocking your Semblance isn’t the end. It can still grow and evolve. Providing you’re willing to put in the work, who knows what could happen…” --- Ozpin (RWBY V5: C4)  

“…With enough training and focus, a user's Aura can turn them into something much more than just a man...”---World of Remnant: Aura 

I’m not quite sure what the case with that will be. All I’m here to state is that maybe there is indeed a magical connection to the Faunus.

What does Remnant, the Grimm and Mankind all have in common? They were all created by powerful supernatural beings who possessed magic or the power of a god or however you chose to refer it. The same could be said for the Faunus. 

I just don’t think it was the magic of the gods that spawned the Faunus but more so another character known for possessing the closest equivalent to such a ‘god-like’ power.

God of the Faunus

Now for the real meat of this post. Once upon a time, I read a RWBY Theory from back in the early days of V1 and V3 where a fan theorized that Ozpin created the Faunus. Though interesting, at the time I didn’t know what to make of that theory because I guess there wasn’t much canonical evidence to support it. Now seasons later, I’m beginning to wonder if that original theorist might’ve been on to something.

It’s not to say that the Faunus, the First Faunus, were originally lab experiments that escaped into the wilds of Remnant. That wouldn’t really make sense since according to the World of Remnant episode on the Faunus; they existed long before the current Remnant where technology is booming.

So the theory that makes sense, at least for now, is the one about Faunus being animals transformed into the Faunus via magic.

 And who do we know in the RWBY series has the power to turn animals into humans? Ozpin. Here me out with this one. As I said, it was already established in the series canon that Ozpin has dabbled in using his power to ‘create special beings’ in his past lives.

 I wouldn’t exactly call the Maidens a race of powerful beings but they are close enough. The Maidens were technically normal women who were granted immense power beyond anything norm in Remnant and they were created singlehandedly by Ozpin.

And let’s not forget, that Ozpin also granted the Branwen Twins the ability to shapeshift into birds. And he made that possible for the Branwens with just a sliver of his magic all in his past life.

So…if Oz’s magic can turn humans into animals, what’s to say his magic can’t do the opposite? I’m starting to slowly believe that Oz might’ve unintentionally created the Faunus using his magic. I don’t have much more evidence from the canon series to support this but, it’s starting to make sense given what we know of Ozpin, his abilities and the unknown origins of the Faunus provided by the series.

When I say Oz unintentionally made the Faunus, I mean it could have been a scenario that occurred after he was reincarnated for the first time and realized he had powers. Now I’d imagine that in his second or third lifetimes, Ozpin originally did not have as much grasp on his magical skill so he probably had moments where he suffered a couple ‘boo-boos’ with using magic or legit moments where his magic did things that he never anticipated would happen.

I mean, I’m sure when Ozpin first created the Maidens he didn’t anticipate that the power would ‘evolve’ the way it did so that the original Four Maidens could each have successors that would carry on their legacy of power and continue to aid Oz in the protection of the Relics. After all, I’m sure it must’ve surprised Oz the first time he learnt that the Maiden Magic could be passed onto another.

For my fellow FNDM fam who watch Nomad of Nowhere. Spoilers for the first season but remember how the Papa magician that created the Nomad didn’t expect it to possess magic of its own.

Imagine if… there was a similar scenario with Ozpin where, in his past life, he probably encountered some poor animals that had been preyed upon and injured by the Grimm.

In his attempt to help those animals, Ozpin used his magic in hopes that his power might heal the creatures. However what he did not anticipate was for his power to turn the animals into human-like beings still retaining their animalistic features. And that’s how the First Faunus were born.

It’s be interesting, not to mention kinda funny if, Ozpin used his magic on some animals and didn’t realize that he had made the Faunus until a few lifetimes later when word of the existence of the Faunus became rampant throughout Remnant.

You think that a person like Ozpin who’s lived many lifetimes would have also played some part in shaping Remnant’s history, especially for the Faunus, right?

Imagine if…Remember that memorable point in Remnant history when Mankind and Faunus came together for the first time to fight the Grimm in that village in Sanus? Perhaps in one of his previous lives, Ozpin was somehow responsible for instigating that?

What if…Ozpin was somehow responsible for planting the seeds that also lead to the Faunus receiving equal rights following the first Great War too?

I mean a common theory among RWBY theorists is the belief that Oz was formerly the King of Vale who helped end the Great War. So who knows how much Oz has played a part in shaping Remnant’s history for both mankind and the Faunus.

You never know. I wouldn’t put it past him if he did since he is the only known human in Remnant who has that kind of power and influence.

If Ozpin’s predecessors were responsible for creating the Maidens and essentially founding the Four Huntsmen Academies that house the Relics while also appointing his most trusted to be the Headmasters. For real, what else has Ozpin done to shape the world? But I’m getting ahead of myself here.

Back on the Faunus, I honestly would not be surprised if later we learnt that not only was Ozpin formerly responsible for creating the Faunus but also shaping every event that led to ‘his creations’ finding their place in the world. That sounds like something Oz would do, right?

With this in mind, this brings up a curious question I have about the Faunus. Religion isn’t something that’s normally discussed or depicted in RWBY. I mean, Qrow just mentions the possibility of it in V4 like an afterthought.

"…Not many people are super religious these days. This world's been around for a long time, long enough that people have created dozens of gods. But if you believe Ozpin, two of them are actually real…”

That being said, I wonder if there are indeed those ‘super religious’ cultures in Remnant comprised of people who spend their days praying to said ‘created gods’. If some of them are the Faunus then who do the Faunus view as their god?

I ask this question because I have this concept where somewhere in Faunus culture; there is an interpretation of who the Faunus believe as their god--- the mystical entity they believed created their species. This depiction is one that Ozpin recognizes as one of his past lives. Meaning that the Faunus believed him to be their God; only reimagined as a Faunus. It’d be an interesting twist if the more religious Faunus believed that there God was probably a Faunus like them---A Faunus God of some sort; but in actuality they were made by an immortal wizard who is closer to human than Faunus.

I like this idea because it would tie into my hunch about Ozpin unknowingly creating the Faunus in one of his past lives with his magic. Not to mention that I also quite like the satire of the Faunus viewing Ozpin as a god when in actuality, the old wizard is nothing more than just an angel that fell from grace when he was cursed by the true Gods of Remnant for failing to stop the personification of the devil and their demons in the RWBY-verse.

‘…Born an angel, heaven-sent. Falls from grace are never elegant…’

 When you put it like that, it sounds quite compelling. But for now, it’s only another hunch in a pool of hunches.

So in conclusion…

I am sooo sorry that it took me this me to answer you, Bloom. I know you told me that you don’t mind waiting but still, mucho apologies fam. Nonetheless, I hope this answered your question. Thanks for sending them to me by the way. I always appreciate hearing feedback from fellow RWBY fam regarding my posts so it was awesome to receive yours. It definitely helped me to concoct theories surrounding the Faunus that I never considered.

Honestly, it’d be really interesting if there was a side to Ozpin that harbours some inkling of a, not so much a grudge, but more so a feeling of longing to return to his former glory where he was someone in tune with the Gods. Or at least die and actually get to rest in peace this time instead of returning to complicate another successor’s livelihood. You don’t get a line like ‘born an angel, heaven sent’ for a character if it didn’t garner some symbolism for something important involving said character that involved real gods, y’know what I’m saying.

I truly like the thought of Ozpin, in a subconscious attempt to feel worthy or like the former angel he once was, using his magical powers to perform miracles he believed would aid mankind. Y’know…give his own gifts to mankind like the Brother Gods did before him.

I mean, he did create the Maidens and the Branwen Twins; in spite of fact that the Maidens became targets for the forces of evil to prey upon their magic including one of the Branwens who additionally became someone who is against him.

At least there’s the Faunus. Ozpin could’ve potentially given the people of Remnant the gift of the Faunus and look what good they did for man---y’know what, never mind.  

I’d even go so far as to bring up the idea of Oz potentially creating the Silver Eyed Warriors too. I mean that’s another theory I’ve observed circulating the fandom. However as you know, I’m more in favour of my earlier hunch about  the Silver Eyes being an early creation of the God of Light to combat the first onset of Grimm set by the God of Darkness or…perhaps another ancient race that resembles Salem. That’s my view on it.

I know they’re all just theories but I really like those ideas above anything else. Definitely more so than Ozpin creating the Silver Eyed Warriors. I mean it’s a terrific theory especially if anyone can sell the idea really well. But to me, not every magical concoction that suddenly appears in Remnant has to connect back to Ozpin.

I am inclined, however, to the belief of Ozpin sharing a close special bond to a former Silver Eyed Warrior in his first life.

I’m not talking about Oz being a Silver Eyed Warrior himself. But more like, perhaps one of the first people Ozpin ever truly loved or cared deeply for was in fact a Silver Eyed Warrior and his past with them is what also sparked his whole endless debacle with Salem. I really, really like this idea. Might talk about this some more in a future musing or remark or something. But for now, these are just my views.

Anyways, I hope you liked this musing. Let me know what you think Bloom and to all my other readers, I hope this musing was enjoyable and gave you something to muse about with RWBY.

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