Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7622429-20140621172905/@comment-17970636-20140621184549

Alright, so you're from FORUM the Manga Wiki? I digress that you have your own sorts of rules and moderations here, but over here at Fanon, we haev a specific ruleset and follow whatever Monty throws as us for a number of reasons.

1. We like to Roleplay, and realistically, doing a RWBY Roleplay with your characters should make sense to fit in within the world of RWBY, so having your character relate to a colour, or make you think of a colour. And you can be clever the way you play it too. Example, a newsreporter's name was Cyril Ian. A play on the word Cerulean, which is a shade of blue. Other people use this tactic. Example: Messer Danam, Danam relates to "denim" which relates to the colour blue, as denim is of a blue shade.

2. We want OC's to fit within the world of RWBY. And if Monty says that names have to relate to a colour, be a colour, or make you think of a colour, then that is the way we shall go, for we run under the idea that none of our OC's would look strange suddenly just being plopped into the world of RWBY, that they'd fit right in. And to be honest, we crave for information from Monty about how characters should be and such, so really, after Volume 2. I'm pretty sure the colour naming rule will just be the tip of the iceberg.

3. We are actually lenient on some of the things that Monty has said, especially with our acception of Semblances. Generally, we could be like "Oh, we don't know whether this type of semblance exists... blah blah blah." for every OC with a semblance, however, we are lenient enough that if it fits in with the laws of physics, meets an outline of the types of semblances we've seen so far, and such. So we're actually lenient on some fronts. Yes, semblances is generally the most seen ways that OC's get rejected, that, and the backstory, however, we keep it within moderation. We want your imaginations to flow. But how far can you think outside the box whilst staying within Canon? That, is the real test.

4. We don't shoot down OC's for not having pockets. Which is something that Monty does with all of his characters, for cosplay reasons.

The reason I listed three and four was because you said about abandoning OC's because of a rule. We at RWBY fanon do not encourage the abandoning OC's, and for that reason, I listed those other two things which were not related to the topic at hand, due to the fact that we want you to make OC's, and enjoy making them, and thus, remain lenient on some aspects in order to make sure you enjoy your time here.

Thanks for reading and have a great day.