Crossover speculation incoming:
My current theory is that RWBY is set soon after the fall of the Moon Kingdom, maybe 500-1000 ASM. That the people of Remnant are a civilization once proud and spacefaring, but now clinging to survival on the lone planet left to inhabitable. The grimm are spirits of the youma, who, without leadership, bound themselves into wild animals and are fed by primal fears.
The four Maidens are well, any set of 4 senshi, as they reincarnate. Let's go with Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, because they're mostly seasonal deities right? Juno of youth is spring, Ceres of growth is summer, Vesta of fire is autumn, and Pallas the pallid ice maiden is winter.* And that one Atlas device actually extracts a star seed (BSSM canon!) and puts it in another person.
Much of the lore of the senshi has already been lost, not in small part due to the events before and after the end of the Silver Millennium. The four kingdom-cities are the remnants of the domains of Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoicite, and Kunzite, though few people would still know that fact in the age of RWBY.
The kind of downside of this backstory -- assuming the Remnant is Earth -- is knowing that all civilization will fall, no matter what our heroes do. But it also means that we know that they must have succeeded, because they were so deeply ingrained in our culture that we still tell stories about them today. So even if there aren't any descendants of planet Mau roaming around today, we still remember Blake.
Also corgis have existed for thousands of years. Considering their pedigree, do NOT mess with Queen Elizabeth's corgis.
* Yes I know pallidus is not etymologically related to "?a????", I'm stretching it for the story.
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My current theory is that RWBY is set soon after the fall of the Moon Kingdom, maybe 500-1000 ASM. That the people of Remnant are a civilization once proud and spacefaring, but now clinging to survival on the lone planet left to inhabitable. The grimm are spirits of the youma, who, without leadership, bound themselves into wild animals and are fed by primal fears.
The four Maidens are well, any set of 4 senshi, as they reincarnate. Let's go with Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, because they're mostly seasonal deities right? Juno of youth is spring, Ceres of growth is summer, Vesta of fire is autumn, and Pallas the pallid ice maiden is winter.* And that one Atlas device actually extracts a star seed (BSSM canon!) and puts it in another person.
Much of the lore of the senshi has already been lost, not in small part due to the events before and after the end of the Silver Millennium. The four kingdom-cities are the remnants of the domains of Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoicite, and Kunzite, though few people would still know that fact in the age of RWBY.
The kind of downside of this backstory -- assuming the Remnant is Earth -- is knowing that all civilization will fall, no matter what our heroes do. But it also means that we know that they must have succeeded, because they were so deeply ingrained in our culture that we still tell stories about them today. So even if there aren't any descendants of planet Mau roaming around today, we still remember Blake.
Also corgis have existed for thousands of years. Considering their pedigree, do NOT mess with Queen Elizabeth's corgis.
* Yes I know pallidus is not etymologically related to "?a????", I'm stretching it for the story.
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