User blog comment:SelenaZephyr/An Open Letter to the Community/@comment-7468226-20140120164214/@comment-24087318-20140120173112

Montys Naming conventions were released long after the Fanon came into existance. To enforce them would be to go back and retroactively go through every character ever done to make sure they fit this. (And even then, part of his convention is what "makes you think of a color" so even if it's not a color or a color-like word in ANY language, if it makes you think of one, it's good. Which really does depend on everyones individual mindsets.)

Montys Color Scheme is not one of the things the Fanon enforces, but IS aware of since Monty himself has said that they need to fit this in order to be considered for his contests.

Weapons are, by and large, left to incredibly high amounts of creativity. But while all weapons we've seen in RWBY are large, dramatically impossible, and capable of transforming into various forms, they are still mechanical, fire bullets, and are plausible when you look at a 3D model, with all the parts used in every form folding or changing, while the weapon itself retains the same weight, look and feel.

As for Semblances, yes, we do hardly know what they are. But we can put together quite a bit of evidence from what we HAVE seen, and come to a conclusion of what IS plausible from these. Yes, it's very little. And yes, it's very strict and tight. But this will be alleviated with Volume 2. Just be patient.

Moving onto your worry about your OC being Rejected. There's hardly a high rejection rate, and even then, it's hardly a rate to begin with. Rejected characters simply have missing details or implausibilities that stand out to the point the Reviewer determines they're Rejection material. You can add detail, or change these points, to fit in with the reviews terms, Re-submit, and bam. Accepted. Only sometimes do you really have to change a character that's been Rejected. Quite often it's just the way things are worded, or holes that need filling with more detail and sometimes delicious bavarian cream.

If you'd like the Fanon to start considering Montys naming conventions, I'll be more than happy to bring this to the Administrators and Owners to discuss the possibility of doing it. Honestly it's something I've wanted to do, but felt that may be too strict since, after all, quite a many character has been Accepted without following these before he released the naming Conventions, without having properly fitting names.

As for the accusation of what Monty himself would see in the Fanon, that's quite a broad assumption unless you've asked him and seen his reply. It's just as likely he looks at it and he sees the sunny side, where there is a collection of Characters and people who make them banding together in their enjoyment of RWBY.

Here's to giving me some real feedback, and here's to trying to reach a good concencus in the end.