RWBY Ice Queendom Could Address A Big Problem With RWBY

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Spoilers ahead for the original web series RWBY.

RWBY's cast of young monster hunters has been beloved by fans ever since their debut in 2012, but looking back, Weiss' early characterization had some issues. With RWBY: Ice Queendom, Studio Shaft's new take on the web series, an original story might be able to rectify some of those issues.

Ice Queendom started as a retelling of Volume 1 of the original series, but after episode 3 has begun to focus solely on a new story written by Tow Ubukata (Ghost in the Shell: Arise). It revolves around Weiss being trapped by a Nightmare, a Grimm that traps people in dreams, and her teammates coming into her dream to rescue her. With the series recently getting to this new arc, fans are eager to see how the creative team at Shaft will handle these characters and this world on their own terms. So far, the plot is setting up this dream arc as a chance for Weiss to combat her demons, opening up a lot of possibilities for redemption by the arc's end.

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In Volume 1, the show quickly establishes the existence of the Faunus, a humanoid race of individuals with some animal characteristics. This race is discriminated against in the world of Remnant, to the point that members of the Faunus founded the White Fang to protest and demand equality. As efforts to resolve things peacefully fell short, the organization slowly embraced more violent rebellion.

Weiss is the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the most powerful conglomerates in the world, and she's witnessed first-hand the casualties of this war between humans and Faunus. It's made her quite bigoted toward the Faunus, something she has no problem sharing casually when the news of the White Fang's