User blog:Nice Things/Faunus Issues

Okay yeah hi, Jordan here Mod, reviewer, professional Australian, all that good shit. This isn't going to be a super happy blog, but we're all dead on the inside so it doesn't really matter.

Anyway, the topic I wanted to discuss is something which I'll be talking about from the perspective of a reviewer, which annoy's the everloving shit out of me...............(You did read the title right?) Faunus, not them as a whole, but more the relationship which they have with this site and their representation here. That being, most people here write Faunus in usually one of two ways.

1) My character, James Wolf Black Necro 'sexy eyes' Assassin, was abused constantly as a child because of his dark brooding ears. All the normal kids in the village hated him for being a Faunus and beat him up constantly. Then he saw a Grimm once, and wanted to destroy them all. Then he joined the white fang, because only they understood how he feel'd. Then when he was older, he started to like humans despte all the constant abuse he got, and he met a girl, who was like "humans are kew!" Then he was like "yeah they are." But they still abused him for being a Faunus.

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2) My Character, Alice Neko Kitten sex is a super cute kitty Faunus with pretty ears. She's SUUUPA beautiful and sexy and stuff, and everyone likes her. But she's hiding a dark secret, she was abused as a kid because she was a faunus and and and (You get the point).

My issue is, that people on this site do seem to treat Faunus, like the Aussies treated the Aboriginals when we showed up (for you American's it's like how you treated black people in the 50's? I think it was). basically like every faunus is abused constantly and looked down upon yadda yadda yadda, for being a faunus, so much so it's basically a plot cliche at this point, and as reivewer, it's something I always notice because it's annoying as all holy fuck.

Were things probably once like that? Yes almost certainly Blake all but says as much, and Weiss innitially acts as such. However, we see in volume 3 Faunus everywhere, all the time. What I'm trying to say here, is that the 'abused Faunus abused because they are a faunus" backstory is wearing really thin at this point. It's not creative and it's basically a cop out saying "I couldn't think of anything better so here's this." There's no reason why being a Faunus means this has to be your backstory and there are countless OC's on the wiki who do it well. Just work on it guys, I realize the entire fanon is against maknig its reviewers happy (love you guys btw), but it'd be a really nice change from what I'm used to seeing.

Anyway, I've ranted on long enough, Peace out bitches.

P.S Pending got fucking emptied, thank tsu for that mostly but holy fuck it's a good feeling, fuck yeah.