Talk:Kurai Jack Jade/@comment-14295500-20130814064912/@comment-14295500-20130814165420


 * smiles* Nothing wrong with chibis. I'm a base editor myself but I've tired of it and want to develop my own hand drawing... which has whithered into nothing from lack of use.. I respect chibi's more than art theft because again, it's a pure expression of your RPC that no one can copy. Go for it! Free Source Flash games are you next best bet.

Creativity is a good thing to an extent, but in a canon-based rpg, 'All things are true, for a given value of true.' That value, that boundary, that 'Forth Wall' between possible in the RWBYverse are what attracted us to this place to RP. If I wanted giant mecha's I'd join a Power Ranger RP, if I wanted to be a dragon rider I'd join Pern or Eragon. There's Pushing the Forth Wall, a logical conclusion, say even though we havent' seen it in the canon that there's a Dust Type responsible for wind powers. Breaking the Forth wall is making a great big assumption. For example I'd say our society is pretty advanced but I don't see any Robocops running around. By Breaking the Forth Wall you're making your own rules to play by. What if I said, 'Hey, there's magic here so there must be dragons so my character is a dragon rider' and then someone said, 'well, Jaune wears armour, what if my character has power armour.'

If we all keep making our own little changes to the RWBY universe it becomes broken and unusable for everyone. While I'll bet you're really attached to Kurai as he is now, I'd ditch the cyborb thing. And I bet that suggestion was met with the same horror of slicing off a limb, but trust me when I say that grass grows greenest wear you water it. What ever changes you make to Kurai, you'll love them and him because they're yours.

Swordsmanship makes sense int his universe, go for it! It absolutely makes sense for this universe and having a personal weapon is also integral to every character, so is a bit of specialised dust magic, such as Weiss's Ice.

The thing is, the Enemies you've seen are strawman and allowed that overpower because they're only there to highlight the skills of the canon character in question. Once they're down we don't see them again and we don't have to consider their role. Kurai is an ongoing character, that means he will change and grow and be considerate of other RPers around him. Right now you're trying to justify to yourself that he's a good character to play with, but you're preaching to the choir. It's others who have to interact with Kurai in their daily RP. I'll play with a skilled Hunter Swordsman, mild dust skill with good strength, stamina, excellent agility and speed and average senses and gets furious everytime he loses- but I don't want to play with a supercyborg.