Thread:Cinder Moe/@comment-5290299-20150302232750/@comment-5290299-20150303164625

Alright! Well the reason the fanon requires the name of the character to be a color or related to a color is because of the rules Monty Oum set up. He made it so everyone;s names had a color meaning to it. This was explained in Volume 2 with Ozpin telling us why. Now, Monty himself also enorced the rules. Even if there was a name he really liked he had to forget about it because it wasn't a color or followed his rules. Monty himself also asked we follow by the rules. As the fandom circling around his world, of course we wish to respect his wishes, even more so now that he has passed away. As such the fanon will not tolerate anyone not respecting Monty's rules, not even myself. As for Ozpin...well truthfully we never did hear his first name....and Monty himself said Ozpin was exempt for good reason. Methinks because his first name might be a color. Hence when everyone tries to use him as an excuse about the color rule, its simply Ozpin being his last name....we never heard the first name...NEVER.....Still wondering what it is.

Also....I made 20 characters, and 12 of them use names that are NOT taken by ANYONE on the fandom or ANYONE ELSE in the RWBY universe....XD so personally i think there is no excuse to not me creative. I mean heck you could use river names and meadows as a name. Lisa Lavender, or rather Lisa, her name comes from a river, and Bartholomew is the english version of a...archaic I think it said word for meadow. ^_^

As for why little to no canon interaction...well this is my personal belief. As I had told you yesterday, Zaffre ended up with a label on her unintentionally, and so this actually limited what she could do. When I took Blake out of the picture I ended up making an even better character for Zaffre to be friends with. I want Zaffre to be her own person.

Ah! Like this! Say your dad is a famous explorer, and everyone knows you as the son of this guy, not as yourself. They never mention you by name. You are basically living in their shadow. I don't want to make a character that is remembered as Blake's best friend, Cinder's former aquaintance, Roman's sidekicks or anything like that.

I want Zaffre to be the person remembered for her own deeds. So personally I think its best there is little to no canon interaction besides with the teachers. You can make mentions o the canon teams and people but that is it. I think its best because then my character isn't attached by the canon characters shadows.

Does this make sense? This is personally why I enjoy the rule because then I am making Zaffre her own person, along with most of my OC's. They are not being in the shadows and trying to show up people, they are simply living their own lives.

Hoo boy I hope this makes sense and that I wasn't offending you or anything.