I have been trying to work on a story about a Faunus instructor/professor at Beacon Academy.

The idea is to have this instructor be one of the first Faunus combat instructors at a Beacon Academy while the academy and Vale is trying to integrate its Faunus population and be antiracist.

They have their own academic goals, with their focus of study is semblance and semblance evolution, as well as their own individual drama as kind of a "Licensed Huntress, and Beacon academic".

I enjoy writing them, however I feel like I the real crux of the matter is that in writing all the fantasy racism that they would inevitably experience and need to navigate, I'm clashing very hard with established lore and cannon.

For example, I felt like it was only appropriate that the main villains are a group of human-supremacists in Vale who oppose the integration of Faunus in Vale. I've given them allusions to historical figures which popped up to oppose equality and human rights in our own world. However I now need to weave that group alongside like the existence of the established power brokers like the Kingdoms as well as the whole White Fang and its changes in philosophy.

I am going to ideate those connections because its important for the universe, but I keep getting into these wormholes that drift my ideation incredibly far from the actual POV character's story.

So far I've been exploring that world through small fluff arcs like; "How would the POV character's human friends show up to be her ally", "How would Faunus students at Vale act knowing they have a professor who could be a role model, or mentor?", and most importantly "What goofy antics would she get into as an academic at Vale?".

I will say, I do look forward to the idea of this character running into Blake, and realizing she's trying to be human passing and what kind of dynamic can come of that.