User blog comment:SelenaZephyr/An Open Letter to the Community/@comment-25160154-20140120173759

I don't want to write a ranty essay but I whole heartedly hate the current system that the reviewers are using.

The main point I want to get across is that even though we know so littile about the canon lore and goings on in the RWBYverse doesn't mean we have to limit ourselves to that. This is FANON for crying out loud. Let the imagintion tack us where it will. I agree with blatant copies and mary-sues being rejected as well as massively OP OCs, BUT (and this is a large but) we should be allowed to theorise and creat OCs based upon well grounded theories.

Sticking to the canon we have seen so far is not what fanon is about. Fanon is about taking that wich we have seen and playing with it, asking (in the words of Gavin Free) "Wot if..."

The rejection of any OC that even puts a single toe out of the line that the canon has plotted is quite frankly going to scare of the more imaginate among us and leave nothing but altered versions of what we have already seen.

What I think should happen is that only the OPs, Naruto/Ichigo copies and massive mary-sues should be weeded out. This show is still growing and Monty himself is eager to get us fans involved. So why not theorise? For who knows, our theories may become canon if monty thinks they are good enough.

Well would you look at that, an essay DX. From here on out I am done with this subsection of the fanon until they can realise that they are sapping out all the fun. I do hope to RP with you guys again some day but until then I'll stay where the fun is.