1. Beauty and the Beast

I am not an English speaker.

Corrections or feedback regarding inaccurate translations or typos are welcome.

To truly understand a work, it is important to see what the artist envisioned. 

We can observe that the writer had used motifs from the works they seen into their own creations. 

With that in mind, I have an animation to recommend to RWBY fans.

That's Disney's Beauty and the Beast. 
Even if you haven't seen it, even if you're not a RWBY fan, just watch it because it's a masterpiece.
Sadly Monty didn't see the live-action film...
The reason why this animation is important is that, as you all know, the allusions to Blake and Adam are closer in this animation than in the original fairy tale.

Let's take a look at Blake first.

Okay. There are many allusions of her from the Beauty and the Beast animation.
I like the word duality. I will mention this word several times.

Blake loves to read, much like Disney's version of Belle.

And she is seen to own a candelabra, which references Lumière, the living candelabra from the Disney adaptation.

Gambol Shroud's asymmetrical dual wield form is inspired by her duality of being both Belle and The Beast.

And many allusions.

But it's over?

In the black trailer, the forest in the background is called Forever Fall, 
because it is an allusion to the fall season, which is also featured in the introduction of the Disney animation. 
(I see this as a foreshadowing of Blake's connection to Autumn, hinting that she will become the successor of the Fall Maiden.)

But what needs to be noted more is Adam Taurus.
In the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast, the Beast's name is Adam.

His name comes from here.

In the animation, the reason why the Beast is cursed and the main subject is rose.
Adam's weapon name is 'Wilt and Blush' related to it.
All of these are allusions of Disney animation, not original fairy tales.
In fact, Bell = Blake, Beast = Adam are already known.

But Monty added a really important Disney animation illusion to RWBY.

This is Gaston. As the villain of the work, he has a unique character.

He's arrogant and violent

a leader who incites people(Faunus) violently

Obsession with the beauty(bell, blake) bordering on madness...
Yes, He is truly Adam of RWBY.

Gaston serves as a foil personality to the Beast, who was once as vain as Gaston prior to his transformation.

So is the appearance.

Adam, like Disney's depiction of the Beast and Gaston, has bright blue eyes.


And above all, there is an important dialogue.

Beast: I'm just fooling myself. She'll never see me as anything but a monster.

Gaston: [to Belle about the Beast] If I didn't know better, I'd think you had feelings for this monster.
Belle: He's no monster, Gaston. You are !

Yes! In the Disney animation, the word monster is a word that negatively refers to both the beast and gaston.
And Monty brought the word monster to RWBY as it is.

"When I realized my oldest partner had become a monster, I ran! "-S02E10
In RWBY, Blake refers to Adam as a monster. Now everyone knows what Monty's intentions are.

Adam is a character that combines The Beast and Gaston.
He didn't just copy the character. Now we can even know the future story.

The book Blake was in at the vol1 ep2 is 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'.
It is the most famous book about human duality.

her weapon in the form of an asymmetrical double swords.

Blake's semblence is shadow. Shadows appear in opposition to the original in various media.
There mean duality.

One thing to ponder is that the original fairy tale also emphasizes duality.

Beauty and the Beast, the original fairy tale, is also a story in which the male protagonist overcomes the wildness of the beast and becomes a human being with the help of the heroine.

This fairy tale is generally interpreted as arranged marriage happening.
With this interpretation, the image of the "scary unfamiliar groom" disappears and transforms "a husband who is kind to his wife".
In other words, it is about overcoming duality story.

Blake did it. She didn't like her Semblance. 

But she overcame it and knocked down the enemy beautifully.
She overcame her duality.
So should Adam!

Now come back to RWBY and you'll see what Monty's intentions were.
In "Beauty and the Beast", the male protagonist was not aware of true love, so he was a violent beast, not a human being.
Adam is close to Gaston between Beast and Gaston in the beginning.

And at the end, the curse is lifted by Bell's dedication, and the beast's appearance returns as a human being.

So what we need to see in RWBY, of course, would be the story of Adam turning from Gaston to Beast(True Lover of Beauty) with Blake's dedication, right? Adam should overcome duality too, right?
Adam must have overcome duality, right?

WTF? What did we see?
From beginning to end, he only showed us unsightful whinings while being a stalker like Gaston, but never showed us the goodness of the Beast.
Was it best for him to leave like this?

Maybe it was Monty's intention that Adam would die.
There were many ominous signs, but the most important thing was the ending of Blake's book at Volume1.
In Dr. Jekyll and Hyde, the good side could no longer stop the evil side, and he ends up killing himself.
If you replace this with Adam, Adam may regret his sin, but it could be said that he was going to die anyway, whether he took his own life or fought with enemy.

However, no matter what the ending was, it is true that Adam should've been reformed like in the original fairy tale.
Likewise, Blake had to show trying to save Adam.
But nothing was resolved during the volume 4,5,6.
That's why not only Adam but Blake's characters were all messed up.
What baffles me is that RT was already aware that Adam's another allusion was Gaston.
However, they completely misunderstood Adam. 
They don't seem to grasp the essence of the characters, nor do they seem interested in understanding. 
This is because they didn't create it themselves.

Well, here we can get one important piece of information.
We can simply think that one character would have only one allusion. 

But like the example Adam Taurus, one character can have more than just one allusion. 

This provides a new direction for understanding Monty's RWBY.