User blog:SelenaZephyr/Monty Oum - A Eulogy

So as it has been made aware in the days of recent, Monty Oum, creator of RWBY and animation specialist for RoosterTeeth Productions has passed away.

This has come as a shock to all of us, to keep with the theme of using lines everyone has heard a hundred times for a hundred deaths.

Not long ago I was told "Why are we mourning? It's not like we knew Monty personally. The vast majority of us have never even met him." And from certain points of view, that can make sense. Most of us never did meet him personally, yet we're all still affected. And rightfully so.

If it's not entirely obvious, we're on the RWBY Fanon Wikia. RWBY, of course, being the thing that came about when Monty was drawing a map in a restaurant.

With ketchup.

On a napkin.

He had an idea for an original series ever since he signed on to RoosterTeeth. Part of the reason he worked for them was a promise that after a period of time, they'd return the favor and assist him with his own project. That project was RWBY.

If it wasn't for this show being created, this website would never have been created. The people we have met here, the stories we've shared, the characters we've made. None of that would have existed. Every one of you reading this came here for a reason, and if it wasn't for that man and his brilliance, that reason would never have existed.

So I will mourn, as I'm sure many of you all will too.

I know...that personally I come across as very stand-offish. Distant almost. I've emphasized I consider nobody here a friend in the true sense. And I stand by that. But that's not everything. I still enjoy being here, reading your works, your characters. Occasionally I even enjoy doing things that my position as an Administrator asks me to do. And you don't need to consider somebody a friend to care about their well being or have fun goofing around with them.

I'm writing this blog as the standing eulogy for Monty Oum, the man who brought us all together under one passion. I'd like to see in comments and replies how the things he's done, and created, have brought you closer to people, or made you happy on an otherwise crumby day.

We'll all miss you Monty.