User blog comment:SelenaZephyr/An Open Letter to the Community/@comment-25160154-20140120173759/@comment-24080120-20140121112203

Yes, I agree but first off, "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." Yes, i believe this is right BUT (yes, this is a big but) this highly depend on how us, the oc creators, explain thoroughly the new said theories about the RWBY-verse, we have to make it fit with the the CONCEPT of the Canon that we've seen so far, in which the reviewers struggled to point out.

Using our imaginations are highly encouraged but this is the RWBY Fanon make it fit with RWBY do not make it something like a copy that doesn't even work with the laws of RWBY. For example, people were making semblances like water bending from the show Avatar, some were allowed because they were well explained and made fit with RWBY, some are adviced to re-tweak their semblances. There's nothing we can do so far, because we only know so little about RWBY since it's just the first volume. But keep in mind, not only us, but the reviewers as well are affected by these limitations.

"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 see" No, if you really have an imaginative imagination you can come up with anything based on the concept of RWBY, and the rejection thing? the reviewers are just keeping your OCs clean, it won't get accepted if one single thing doesn't connect, it's like math, the formula needs to be exact, one mistake can lead you to your downfall so the reviewers are making sure you don't.

The weapons, yes almost anything is possible in RWBY but the "a gun that shoots a thousand swords" is definitely a no, there are a lot of weapon hybrids and infinite combinations out there. Here's a good example, my most creative weapon thus far.

For now, I suggest we stick to the current rules and restrictions from the canon, hopefully the next volume could provide us more infos. Getting rejected isn't a bad thing, it helps us know our mistakes and improve them, a wise man once said "you can't learn anything if you always win" so don't cry over your rejections instead come up with something that'll make your OC get accepted.

P.S. This is just me but I REALLY didn't like that last bit on your post, it's like you're saying something bad.