GeneralVortex06

Is there any hero that you write as villain, or villain that you write as hero? 
          
          For example. For my fanfic, I'm planning in Ghira being a villain. Basically in this fanfic Kali was a human that died at the hands of the White fang (In this case, Ilia). Ghira would kill Ilia (Since she didn't obtain redemption). 
          
          Ghira would proceed to have a new ideology where he perceives that humans and faunus can't coexist together. So for both to live and prosper, he desires to divide them. That is, make the faunus live in Menagerie. In this fanfic, Menagerie is the richest land in Dust. 
          
          Ghira then makes the **Black fang**, an organization composed by faunus that share his mentality and want to force the faunus to go to Menagerie, or at least convince them. 
          
          Ghira, then allied with some rogue elements of the society to create his dream. 
          For example. He allies with the racist Cordovin since she also wants to force faunus to go to Menagerie. He allies with the villains of RWBY: Arrowfell. And he also allies with Roman Torchwick (in my fanfic, he is the leader of Spider and survived the fall of Beacon). 
          
          He opposes Ruby's group and Salem at the same time. 
          
          But tell me, do you do something similar?

What importance do you give to the criminal underworld? 
          
          Yep, I returned. Leaving the subject we all know ASIDE. 
          
          I wanted to ask about this. For example, I read a post on reddit about what if Roman became the leader of Spider. For example, after the death of Lil' Miss Malachite before the beginning of the series. Or surviving the fall of Beacon, with Melanie and Miltia dying, with Lil Miss Malachite dying at the hands of Winter... Then, Roman would return to Mistral and become the leader of Spider. 
          
          I was thinking in that scenario. He could have saved Adam in Haven, preventing the White fang from being trapped. 
          Spider could have also been a source of resources for White fang. 
          
          Let's remember that Lil' Miss Malachite was the second most powerful person of the kingdom (Only behind Leonardo). With Spider and Leonardo under her control, Salem could do a lot of damage. 
          
          As a matter of fact, Adam, Roman and Leonardo together could have enough power to make a revolution. 
          Just think: With his attack Adam forces the council to declare state of emergency. The faunus get enraged by that, the White fang recruits them. 
          With Spider and the White fang receiving information from Leonardo, they strike in the kingdom's bases. 
          And at the end, they manage to overthrow the government. Of course, Leonardo would sign a treaty giving the political power to the White fang. 
          
          Roman could then become the leader of the new mistralian underworld. 
          
          But, those are only my ideas. What importance do you give to that elements. 
          A crime organization is not an army, but we know that they were running things in the slums of the capital for years. Even wearing uniforms. 
          And in Vale, they controlled the Dust market. 
          
          Roman could corner the Dust market and become the main supplier, giving resources to the White fang and distributing that to their supporters.

How do you guys write bigoted characters? I mean, for example, human supremacist characters? How empathetic do you make them? 
          
          For example, I have Helene Braune. The leader of the Human Fraternity. A terrorist human supremacist organization. Since they replace the role of the White fang during the first volumes, Helene Braun allies with Cinder and her minions. 
          She let her troops be commanded by Roman Torchwick. 
          Her troops liberated Grimm in Vale during the Breach. And they released Grimm into the Academy.
          
          She replaces the role of the White fang Lieutenant. She fights Weiss in the train, telling her about how (From her point of view) her family (The Schnee) are race traitors. Since Jacques made deals with a faunus who was the city council manager of Vale. Yes, in this scenario the human fraternity is so fanatical that they consider people like Jacques "faunus-lovers". 
          
          Helene Braun also participated in the fall of Beacon, she fought against students and Atlas soldiers. At the end, she was executed by Adam Taurus. (Who was also secretly allied with Cinder). 
          
          Helene Braun was once a victim of an abusive faunus stepfather who hurt her. That's why she doesn't like faunus. Or better said, she doesn't want the faunus to have power over her ever again. 
          When she joined the police department, she found herself under a faunus officer. After receiving her first paycheck, she resigned from the police, killed the faunus officer and disappeared. Before that, she burned her house and took the money of the insurance. 
          With that money, she funded Human Fraternity once she joined them. 
          
          When Adam finally killed her, she had flashbacks of her stepfather abusing her. 
          
          Her original plan was to create such a toxic scenario that would force the faunus of Vale to go to Menagerie. 
          
          Her semblance allows her to get stronger as much as she gets angry. Her knuckles (The ones of her gloves) have fire dust. 
          
          
          https://imgur.com/a/zdypvZi

Well... The Half Life subreddit just went insane. Poor bastards overdosed on hopium.

The First Prologue has been published.

The Human Nationalist League:
          Formed: Unknown
          Current Leader: Jason Tidal
          Ideology: Far-right, Human supremacism, anti-faunus sentiment, authoritarianism, Vale Nationalism. 
          Allegiance: 3rd party faction, not aligned with the Academies, but not working with Cinder's group. 
          Description: Originally starting off as a violent, rascist street gang, the Human Nationalist League would attempt to become seen as a legitimate political entity by using "Peaceful" marches, posters and grand speeches to get their message across instead of words. This was done under Jason Tidal, a young yet pursuasive and dramatic speaker, who personally leads the marches across Vale. Don't let this mistake you, despite being accepted as a political party, they are still street thugs at heart and often engage in street brawls with faunus and human counter-protestors. Infamously known for placing razors behind propaganda stickers so if someone tries to tear the sticker down, they will get cut. The reason they haven't been banned is because there are several rich humans with connection to Vale politicans keeping them from being banned. 
          Despite this, mainstream politics in Vale don't like them but also fear they're growing popularity. The HNL take advantage of White Fang attacks to boost their popularity, as well as conspiracy theories that faunus are carrying diseases. 
          One of the League's biggest opponents other than faunus political groups, is Headmaster Ozpin of Beacon who has used his position as councilor to prevent the League from growing further, fearing that their anger may draw more Grimm attacks across Vale and cause relations between humans and faunus in Vale to fall further. 
          
          Here's a the group that appears in my newest story, the ones inspired by the real life National Front. They will appear occasionally in my stories, often to show the rascism against faunus more explicitly and to increase political tension in Vale.

An idea of ​​a faction replacing the White Fang during the first few volumes.
          
          I don't mean replacing them completely, just during the first three volumes in terms of the actions they take. In this case, Cinder approached Adam Taurus and recruited him and the White Fang.
          But she also approached Helene Braun, the leader of the human supremacist organization Human Fraternity.
          
          They would be the ones who helped Roman steal Dust.
          Why does Human Fraternity do this? The Vale council manager is a Faunus who made deals with the SDC.
          Human Fraternity hates Jacques and the Vale government for allying with Faunus.
          
          Remember that Vale is a kingdom with low levels of racism.
          They would even be the ones who released Grimm in Vale City, as well as in Breach. In general, you could compare them to real-life supremacist groups.
          
          However, everything changes with the fall of Vale. There, the Human Fraternity releases Grimm in Beacon in order to overthrow Ozpin and the rest of the Vale government.
          But Adam and the White Fang also appear.
          
          Adam appears and murders all the members of the Human Fraternity along with his soldiers.
          
          So Adam also participates in the fall of Beacon.
          Cinder and Adam's plan was to let the Human Fraternity act freely, so that later the White Fang could appear, kill them, and present themselves as the heroes.
          
          Obviously, only Adam and a few other White Fang officers would know the truth about this scheme. Few would know that Roman and the Human Fraternity were allies of Cinder.
          In fact, after the fall of Beacon, Adam would be in charge of exterminating the remnants of the Human Fraternity in Vale.

What is your own favorite faction? I mean, what faction that you created was the favorite? 
          
          For example, I have "Black Samurai." It's a faction antagonistic to the White Fang (and terrorist groups in Mistral in general).
          While one might think they're just a group of human terrorists, it's more complicated than that.
          
          They were created by a member of the Mistral council (Councilman Huangse De Gallio) as a force to destroy the terrorist groups plaguing Mistral.
          
          Obviously, De Gallio is a human supremacist. In fact, his family had investments in the Mistral Trading Company (which also exploited Faunus). He sold all his shares to finance the Black Samurai.
          
          Black Samurai is a military force with anti-terrorist policing functions.
          They are led by Heise De Nero. Heise is an enigmatic leader, shrouded in mystery. He has prosthetic arms and legs. He wields a sword that he uses to fight and has the semblance to create force fields. Heise has five commanders, who are also shrouded in mystery. All members of the organization wear masks. 
          Obviously, the leaders have more elaborate masks/helmets.
          One of the members is also the leader of the Mistral police's anti-terrorist division. This gives Black Samurai, and therefore Huangse De Giallo, even more power.
          
          Black Samurai is no less brutal than the torture and police brutality inflicted on Faunus. Most of its members are human supremacists and ultra-nationalists from Mistral.
          They undergo rigorous training that allows them to use auras. They have superior equipment, even better than that of the Mistral police.
          After the embargo, they began using gunpowder weapons (which exist in my fanfic) to conserve Dust.

I may have mentioned this backstory in a now deleted story, but I've always had an idea for tweaking Blake's backstory:
          First of all, she is still Ghira and Kali's daughter, but there's a bit of complication. You see shortly after Blake's birth the Brotherhood of Humanity launched a full-scale attack on Menagarie (Secretly backed by a few board members of the SDC may I say). Despite the island's guards putting up decent resistance it wasn't enough and it looked like the Brotherhood were going to get their way, so Blake's parents decide to send Blake and several other faunus children away from Menagarie to Mistral (The closest Kingdom). Blake is then taken into an orphanage and basically grows up there. Being a faunus, she is of course bullied by the human kids and even the adults working at the orphanage. Blake would quickly see the peaceful White Fang's protests and joins them in her youth. She still get's bullied and hurt but she's determined to try and make a difference for the faunus (This injustice fully sparking her faunus advocacy). Eventually on one day, during a normal White Fang protes the Brotherhood attacked the incident. Blake get's cornered by a member of the Brotherhood, but is saved by a young Adam. The two befriend each other and come across Sienna who notes Blake as Ghira and Kali's daughter and the two are then sent to Menagarie. Blake reunites with her parents, but she's seen and experienced what her people go through, and is willing to continue advocating for faunus rights.
          There, we keep her parents but also make it so she's not fully an island princess, and instead actually has experienced some harsh anti-faunus sentiment, making her more drived to help the faunus. It also makes the relationship between Blake and Adam more tragic, as Adam was her first proper friend and the one who saved her from the Brotherhood.

Just a quick question, are you familiar with the Victor Hugo Novel “Les Miserables” or its Musical adaptation?