#constantvariations

(Other thought was he's a Faunus type that has goofy teeth, like a rat or beaver, so he wears the full mask to hide it, but that's less interesting to me lol)

See, I understand where you're coming from, but unfortunately the narrative of a human passing as a Faunus participating in a civil rights group like the White Fang, especially with how they're written in canon, brings up very negative connotations and messages about the storyline as a whole.

Long Post Ahead

The whole "human faking to be Faunus" narrative has always grind on my gears, because it originated from racist ass FNDM stans to further villainize Adam (he was the first instance of this that I've known of) and play down on his oppression as a child slave, so I will always give this theory on any Faunus character a NASTY stink eye. Not to mention that RT is adamant on making the WF a terrorist organization and forgo any of its nuances (like, holy shit, even the most extreme civil rights group irl still participate in community service, yet we do not see the WF doing any of that), so having a human passing as a Faunus joining up with an organization that aims to bring destruction in the name of racial liberation is,,,,yeah.

Even if Banesaw was an indentured servant like Cinder and Clark Kent in the crossover.... why isn't there another movement against that? Why isn't there protests about literal slavery against humans and exploitation of children under the hands of a legal guardian? This separate issue and the Faunus liberation movements are related issues, not something that should be completely put into one unless it's already a shared issue, which should be anti-slavery.

But no, the Faunus liberation movement compasses Faunus issues; Faunus slavery, anti-Faunus discrimination, segregation, forced relocation, red-lining, unfair wage distribution, sabotaging Faunus businesses, racial violence, medical discrimination based on biological differences, price gouging on predominantly-Faunus neighborhoods, lack of recreational areas, lack of basic resources, lack of proper education, etc. All of these issues are for the Faunus, and while indenture servitude is a related social disease that isn't exclusive to Faunus, it shouldn't be handled solely by Faunus groups such as the WF. Realistically, there should be other civil rights groups handling such problems and collaborate with groups like the WF for protests, much like how the real life Black Panther Party collaborated with the Women's Rights movement as well as the Gay Rights movement while still being a Black civil rights movement.

The goals and purposes of these groups are integrated, but they are not interchangeable.

Back to Banesaw, I would keep him Faunus. Like I've mentioned in my initial post about him, it's much more interesting for Bane as a character and for the world building of Remnant that his Faunus trait is unknown. A part of his identity, depending on who's looking at him, either means so much or means nothing. Is he strong because of his trait, or his trait means nothing as long as he is strong? The narrative of finding his place in the world fits well with Adam's, Ilia's, and all Faunus because it's who they are, it's their given rights to exist, and how they approach a society that refuse to give them that right based on their race. So I do not think making him a human disguising as a Faunus to gain his goal is a better path for his story, rather than making him be a part of the narrative where more "dangerous" looking Faunus are treated differently in comparison to their "cuter" counterparts.

This is not a rip on your perspective, don't get me wrong. But it's much more complex than that, and blurring the line when canon doesn't even want to acknowledge the nuances of the Faunus plots creates more problem than expand on the world of Remnant in my opinion. Sorry if this response isn't very articulated, but this is an issue that I'm approaching with all the caution I can muster up.

of course!

thejewishmuseum.

diarna for swana jewish cultures.

@constantvariations "V7 made a consistent point to make Ren viscerally uncomfortable any time Nora flirted with him" Um. No it didn't. It was that one scene and he wasn't "viscerally" uncomfortable. Nor were they yelling at each other at any point. It is not like the Sierra Burgess kiss, and I would like you to have higher standards than comparing it to something you know is weird and gross and an entirely different scenario in a movie about catfishing a guy.

You're mis-applying common talking points. Ruby, Neo, Cinder, and abundant other female characters didn't "choose" to put on outfits that showed off cleavage and legs because they can, they did so because horny straight men wrote it. Ren knows who Nora is, knows how she feels about him, actively likes her back consistently from Volumes 1 to 8, and the barrier in place is not his lack of consent, it's his hesitation and tendency to be over-cautious. Ren is not a woman being put in titillating outfits with some veneer of choice and feminism placed up to justify it, he is a male character whose affection for the girl kissing him was already established prior. Miles and Kerry may have a nonconsent pattern that does tend to go under-scrutinized, but this isn't an example of it, nor is it an example of pandering since the relationship was already canon and just lacked a kiss at that point.