User blog:Ragadorus/Race Creation

As some of you may know, there's been quite a bit of drama on the fanon recently about someone creating a new species for RWBY that is basically living Dust. Personally, here are my thoughts:

One side of the argument is that there is no evidence supporting the possibility of the existence of said species, nor does it fit what we know about Dust, with it being, as far as we know, an inorganic, inanimate object. There is nothing to support the possibility of living Dust.

On the other side of the argument, there's no reason why not to believe in it. This is fanon; we should be allowed to make what we want.

Personally, I find it far more creative to use this amazing toolset Monty's giving us, and make a character that actually fits the world, as opposed to altering the universe to create a tailor-made race for your OC.

Some people say they might be a type of Fauna. Although we know next to nothing about fauna, from what we can logicaly assume, they appear to be some form of a cross between humans and animals. However, Dust is an inanimate object, not an animal, so I don't see how this could work.

If Dust proves to be radioactive in some form, and they are retconned as, perhaps, humans or fauna that have been altered by Dust raidation to have Dustlike qualities, then it might be believable. However, that would also mean that a lot of Dust miners would probably also be of this species, as well as people who work closely with Dust.

The current agreement we seem to have reached is that they will remain in an alt. universe category until there is sufficient evidence to suggest this species as a logical part of the universe.