One of my OCs is a human that is adopted at a young age by fish Faunus in Menagerie. She washed ashore in Menagerie with her mother who was on her last legs and begged the fish Faunus to take care of her 5 year old baby girl. They take her in and raise her in Menagerie. She'd be meant for the canon universe.
Wish there’s more information about the training schools like Signal and Sanctum Academy. It would help me determine the backstory for my own character
Personally I wish we got to see more of the Beacon curriculum like how in the Harry Potter books they showed each school year, basically I want to know the difference between a 4th year student and a 1st year student when it comes to knowledge/power. Team CFVY were only 2nd years but their power level was far higher at the time than team RWBY, it kinda makes you wonder if the average 4th year's more or less Pyrrha tier.
We only have a few things confirmed up to now, like the fact the Combat Schools share a common theme with the Academies for their names. Vale has Beacon + Signal so things showing the path, Vacuo has Shade + Oscuro so things related to shadows (vital to live in the desert), Mistral has Haven + Sanctum so places of safeness... but I still wonder if Atlas has only one school fused to the Academy or its own combat schools, which I guess would be named after things to keep you warm like a Mantle. Personally I made up Satellite in Vale and Foyer (a word for fireplace) in Atlas for OC needs. About curriculum, we know that in canon Beacon teaches things among Plant Science, Stealth and Security, Weapon Crafting and Upkeep, Grimm Studies, World History, and on Phoenix's Discord another list for potential non-canon subjects to teach was made.
It could be, that they do meet up. But the Backstory for the characters don't connect with the OC We could have storylines for our OC's where they at least see the canon characters As long as we don't break the universe itself
Personally, my team's situation with canon characters is that to them, the canon characters are doing canon things in the background and my team just doesn't notice them at all.
That’s a very effective way of doing this. Hell, it’s more than likely splinter groups of Huntsmen around the other continents are basically doing MOP-UP operations on The Grim.
I think in the future you should discuss about how people can find ways to have their OC designs brought to life if they can't draw. And if anyone is curious, my OC Team is AZUR - Azrael Boltz Zoe Legion Ukitake Uri Ralph Exvius
My main OC grew up in Mantle, but was forced to move to Vacuo after an incident at his combat school. Adjusting to the climate is definitely something I considered in his backstory and attitude.
Speaking off After the fall and Before the dawn, are we going to talk about Neptune's semblance off Water attraction (ironic as he's scared off the water and we know why now) and Scarlet's semblance gliding, which we have seen in season 3 now to think about it. He got lifted into the air by Dew's tornados and glided to the ship's mast.
There’s a reason I’m so familiar and have a tendency to create a Alternative Universe, it’s easier, but then I can scales the character down to fit the canon lore/rules, I’m Epcot from your discord btw
I'm watching this not for an RP or what not, but for the development of a game where the player is sort of inserted into the story, along with a handful of other original characters to smooth the transition and fill up Beacon Academy's student roster. I must say, you're doing an excellent job with these types of videos!
I kinda subvert it by mostly having a character's story set in the past, just a few years after THE GREAT WAR. Very interesting times with what I see as way more competent fighters born from the flames of war, a new golden age of relative peace coming soon, and tons of smaller conflicts probably popping up here and there due to governments and people being forced to change.
Honestly I was surprised that there was no jack and the beanstalk character in vol 7, given the Marxist class system that was going on. When I made my Jack Oc, I imagined a scene where Salem got the creation relic and in turn cause atlas to start falling. My oc would combine his titan semblance with Jaune to literally hold the city and then use earth dust to solidify it, creating a scene that would reference the titan atlas holding up the heavens as a mountain.
Haha, I also disagree with the non-interaction rule. If your OC was a 3rd year student at Beacon for example why wouldn't they fight during the fall next to a professor? In fact maybe your OC looked for someone strong like Glynda in order to increase their chances of survival.
Opal. Her semblance is Flicker Fusion Alteration. She can alter her "flicker fusion rate", making it go faster. This makes her perceive time in slow motion. She sees the world in slow motion, but she is not bound by that slow motion herself. Its not so much time manipulation, as it is rather she is perceiving/experiencing a dilation due to her FFR. This is similar to the difference in how a housefly (which has a MUCH higher FFR than a human, sees the human moving in slow motion, giving the fly PLENTY of time to move out of the way of the humans strike. Time manipulation with out time manipulation, coming from an ACTUAL IRL thing. Oooooh yeeeeaaahhhh! :)
I know you said to do the location first. But my plan for my ocs is that they are essentially redesigns of older ocs from a now cancelled project I’m completely reworking them (like the protagonist is almost completely new. The only the only hold overs from the original are his personality kinda and a vague connection to ice) but I already have a base idea
You can bend the rules just like Ozpin said. You can have your oc interact with the main characters and be apart of their backstory but can not break the Canon. For example if a characters backstory has many characters or interactions with other characters that were never named or shown then you can fit an Oc into it but then you run into the problem of everyone wants to do that. After all we don't get every time with these characters there is uncounted time that an oc can interact with the Canon characters.
“You can’t have your OCs influence the main RWBY story...” why not? I’ve seen people write AUs/fanfics where there OCs are part of the RWBY. The whole reason I made my OCs was because I wanted them to be some what part of the story
As far as Canon interactions go, well I have a few. Krystal was born into the Branwen Tribe tho remained in the backdrop too shy to approach Qrow and wanted nothing to do with Raven but spent some time at sea with her father, a pirate. Ebony grew up in the upper echelon of Atlas , but upon hearing of a Schnee enrolling at the Academy she thought "why not". Okay, so Schnees are Very influential in the world of Remnant so indirect interactions could happen. Rudy, well, he never encountered the Schnees directly but his Father worked directly with Nicholas Schnee given the whole Rudolph/ Santa dynamic which is why his family is still upper middle-class in Mantle. Marron was snuffed out of an opportunity to perform at a banquet because she was a faunus and Fritz never let this down as he was passive-aggressive towards Winter amongst other issues to the point of being expelled from Atlas 2 months before graduation. Gaspar attended Sanctum a year ahead of Pyrrha so losing in a sparring match was bound to happen. So that's ALL of SGRP(sugar plum). Other than that, Brick, Styx ,and Hailey came over to help fight the White Fang at Haven with Sun and Blake. Tell me if any of these cross the line.
I made a team called HMNY (harmony) led by Harper oak, the other members are: myria sky, Nico dark and Yin dark I posted a thing about harper on a previous video but basically myria is a bird Faunus with blue feathered wings and yin is a dog Faunus (yin is a girl) nico is not a Faunus but is yin’s brother their dad was not a Faunus and their mom was a bird Faunus too. Their parents got arrived in secret as many did not accept a Faunus and a human being married, their semblances are: Harper has levetation, myria has greatly enhanced sense in an are around her, nico can create things by writing in a book (they can be living beings) and yin can use portals. Their weapons are: Harper has a spear that becomes a gun or a dagger it is also able to use fire and lightning dust , myria has a bow that uses ice and wind dust and can become a staff. Nico has a dagger as a secondary but he mainly fights by using his semblence to create monsters or other weapons. Yin has dual sickles ( mini scythes basically) with gravity dust. I’ll post a backstory on an edit to this comment at some point
Most of what I do is alternate universe and what if scenarios, but my main team BLAC is written mostly to fit in the timeline. They were present at the fall of beacon, but they were fighting on the other side of the school grounds and moved into the city itself. That being said I have a LOT of alternate universes because I eat that kind of thing up lol
From Vale. His story takes place in an alternate universe called the Agniverse, so he can be a major player. Therefore he doesn't mess with the actual story. Agniverse story: His mom is like trying to "cleanse Remnant of all impurities", but nothing's perfect so yeah we gotta stop her. The reason Agni is fighting her is originally HE was gonna be Lord Deus Ex Machina but he left so now it's her. He teamed up with this version of Neo because they have a similar backstory. He may or may not have a crush on Yang, lol
Yeah i wanted my characters to tied to criminal activity. Thanks to mistral that became the logical place. Two characters were raised out side the kingdom and became tied to the spiders. the other two ended up being a part of a crime group that i made located within the main kingdom. Where it got really cool is that the group in the city had a weapon smith as a part of the group and so those two got more complex weapons then the other two.
In my fan stories, one of them's dad is a weapon smith and another one lives in the same city and is his friend so they get completely custom weapons for their birthdays the year before they go to study at Sanctum on the condition they pay a visit on breaks to get their weapons checked up.
My newest iteration of my OC and the story Takes place in an Alternate timeline, where the Canon events in backstories still happen as do other events. But the Circumstances are altered to a point that make it comfortably placed in a nice middle ground. As for interactions, yes my new version does interact with the canon characters but only after their backstory. My OC had his Semblance and his aura awoken at the same time by a forced Artificial way, he was experimented on with an Aura Stimulant {Basically a type of system using Atlasian tech that a Rouge Scientist put together} this experiment caused him to get PTSD and a Psychopathic Split personality
My OC team is meant to be seniors at Beacon when RWBY is formed, since so many fanfics featuring a full team (at least that I have read) put their OCs either after Salem is defeated or years before team RWBY came to beacon. But disregarding what parts of team RCGL's story breaks canon, like Rayna coming to Beacon on Qrow's recommendation and a brief conversation with Ozpin, or Lucius being given transfer papers to Beacon by Professor Lionhart, where each of my OC's come from does have an impact on their personalities and semblances (all of which are described on my deviant art page). Rayna Drake lived in a village on the east coast of Vale as a kid, but her village was ravaged when she was 5. She lived on her own in a cave in the wilderness for the following twelve years, but close enough to civilization that she isn't completely feral. But she wasn't exposed to as much faunus hatred until she encountered a bully at beacon. Regarding her semblance, it activated on its own when she was around twelve, and ran amiss of a beowolf and was forced to fight. Cian comes from Vacuo (specifically a village built on and in the side of a canyon, since a desert would have a canyon), and as such, he hates people who are wasteful with what they have or take it for granted. He also dislikes people who judge others based on appearance, which now that I think about it could be a plot point in my story. But his semblance didn't activate until he started attending beacon (Still a work in progress on the details). Gilderoy lives in Vale but his Grandfather was from Atlas. He isn't as arrogant as most from Atlas (again, thanks to his Grandfather) but his personality is best described as lax because of pragmatism. He's an inventor, always fiddling with machines due to his aspirations to found an engineering company to bring a little touch of Atlas to Vale (and eventually the other kingdoms as well). Despite being laid back (even more so than his Vacuan teammate Cian) he is still constantly thinking of ways to carry his team. I still need to work on how his semblance activated. Finally, there's Lucius. He's from Mistral, and while he does disregard the faunus, he has no outright hatred for them. He also looks down on others (at first) because he is so determined to fulfill his dream of becoming a huntsman that he casts those around him to the wayside. His semblance (probably the most world-breaking thing about team RCGL besides Rayna being a Dragon Faunus) activated in a tantrum he had as a young kid about wanting to be like his two older brothers.
Additionally, I also wanted each of them to have a link to the relics protected in each kingdom. Rayna had tried to steal from a store for food and supplies. Qrow confronted her and in the "fight" that followed (he's a legendary huntsman, she's a self-taught homeless girl, do the math) he was nonetheless impressed and introduced her to Ozpin, who gave her the choice to put her skills to use protecting others, which she accepted mostly because she was tired of living on dumpster scraps and stolen supplies. Cian...well, I'm still not sure how to associate him with Destruction, in a way that's just dark enough for a RWBY character's backstory but not dark enough to work for the DCEU. Gilderoy is an inventor who's family came from Atlas, and he's a skilled inventor in his own right. His motivation is wanting to create his own legacy, rather than just be known as the grandson of a legendary huntsman, and he also wants to create things for his fellow huntsmen and huntresses. Lucius' semblance (as world breaking as it is) stems from the idea of knowledge of other people's powers. He's also the Blake of team RCGL in that 99% of the time, he has his face buried in a book. He craves the knowledge necessary to further his goal of becoming a huntsman. Now, I originally planned to reverse the Ideals symbolized in Cian and Lucius, since Cian's semblance grants him knowledge of the future and Lucius wants to destroy the misconception his parents had of him that he would never be able to survive as a huntsman. But I realized that all four of them can exhibit the concepts of each of the four Ideals, and that the kingdom corresponding to each of them should have the strongest connection. So I still need to work on Cian's connection to destruction.
I have made my team JADE be from the same graduation class as STRQ but they never really had any contact, it was a coincidence that they're from the same graduation class but they had different class schedules. Being the same year as STRQ was to establish their age group. But they came from different kingdoms so they have different perceptions: Jade is from the slums of Mistral and is a little snide but was one of the residents who weren't backwards towards faunus Azul is from menagerie but he was the son of merchants and he's nonchalant Daisy is from a border town between vacuo and vert and she is sunshine personified bcoz she's optimistic despite having a few struggles and growing up nomadic. Evergreen is from the outskirts of Vale and is energetic and he was one of the few children in his tribe since a lot of the members are elderly or single adults
Does anyone know how accepting people in Argus would be of a faunus in a similar boat to Iliya in the sense that it would be easy to hide their trait? I have a character like that and am in the process of writing his full backstory and already wrote down one reason for his semblance to arise and am just questioning if I should make it a more serious reason as opposed to trying to hide and not being a to find a hiding spot during a hide and seek game at a friends birthday party
That is completely fine, mine are about 3 years before Volume 1 as well. I just make sure to not interfere with Canon events to keep the Canon storyline the same ☺
I'm writing an AU fanfic where four of my OCs meet up with Team RWBY during the events of V4 to make sure they arrive in Mistral in one piece. Whenever I write about their time before the show's events, which is a lot give that they're 8-9 years older than Ruby, I make sure that their actions lead to things unfolding in a way that results in the show's events taking place up until my OCs meet Ruby and her friends. Over time, Ruby becomes far more confident, especially once she realizes she's the only person in all of Remnant who can keep one of my OCs in check no matter what happens. I am currently working on a new version, looking more into some aspects like Yang mastering her semblance, and doing some stuff like that. For example, one of my OCs, Talia Star, has a PhD in theoretical and applied aura theory (two different things, she got a PhD in both). She knows more about aura than most people, including the professors at Beacon, and was able to figure out the ins and outs of Yang's semblance just by watching her use it in the tournament. She's teaching Yang to absorb energy on a smaller scale, aka the impact of air molecules displaced by an opponent's weapon moving towards her, as well as sense where she absorbs how much energy. She also learned to release smaller amounts of energy, instead of all of it at once, and can effectively predict incoming attacks before they hit her, because she senses the air hitting her. Also, she's always angry now, which was a big step in controlling her semblance.
Couldn’t a way you could still have your OC to be influenced by one of the cannon characters is to have them, like your character Rey, grow up hearing stories and be influenced by those stories?
I think the rule for it more-so means direct interaction/influence. Because it's entirely logical that a kid could hear about how badass Qrow is, and while never meeting their idol, could still be inspired by him to become a Huntsman. Hell, that's literally part of Ruby's backstory! Just as long as it's not like the example Phoenix gave where "OC is saved by or met [canon character]".
Dumb question but would it be ok for canon if an OC's parent was a member of the Mistral council? My idea was one of my characters would be a Faunus with both a human & Faunus parent. The human parent (mom?) would be a member of the Mistral council trying to push for better conditions/ treatment for the Faunus. Obviously to be canon she can't actually change anything but, with Mistral being Anti-Faunus, it makes sense that her words would fall on deaf ears. Also we never see the Mistral council so.... yeah? Edit (Additional thought): She could be a low ranking council member or aide if being on the council is too much.
I have a slight issue with the idea of not speaking with long term group leaders like I get the thing with Qrow but how do you join the White Fang for instance if you didn't sign up though Sehera Kon? I guess there is Adam's faction but he's a more pivotal character with a great deal smaller amount of followers then those how follow the actual leader. A simialar deal with the Spiders how can you join without speaking to the leader? And we can't just create few factions other wise there will be like 1000 then 2000 so on so forth factions for a group. It makes more sense that the leader let in then forgot scores of qualified members then allow scores of factions doing as they please without their control or will.
I was more referring to having detailed relationships with established characters. Like having an OC that was Ruby's childhood best friend or Ironwoods top commander before winter, etc. Those would be non Canon because of their interactions with Canon characters. Every student accepted to or graduating from an academy is expected to have seen or interacted with teachers or headmasters but it's all about designing a character to fit within the RWBY Canon so as not to change characters with established backstories
Is it ok to have a canon team that has a canon story with nothing to do with the main cast But create a story (it’s a fanfic so it’s gunna be an AU) where they do interact as it’s non canon story
Something else to note is that other than the main 4 academies which are considered major acadamies, there should also be a bunch of minor ones, else they'd just be 'The Academies'. This is also a shot at the talk around the first few episodes of Rwby, implying that other than beacon that there are at least a smaller academy somewhere else, as well as (at least) a High school for becoming a Hunter/Huntress from how the talk was going on, since the average age of an entry student was 18, implying Vale is a college.
Very good on peicing that together I didn't even notice they mentioned something like that I think it was that Scene where Ruby was eating those Cookies
Never thought about it but... outside one of my characters noticing team RWBY in the background... buuuuuuuuuuttttt I wanted one of my teams member ... one that's way darker than the other 3... have a conversation with Cinder... she isn't against her at all and the end of the short interaction would end with my character wishing her the best of luck... and soon before either yang vs mercury or penny vs pyrahha, (latter was where I was going) would leave her team and the school
My RWBY OC is just some bum faunus who attended Atlas the same year as Winter Schnee that I adapted for a DND campaign home-brewed into the RWBY universe a few years back... like a buff Qrow but kinda cheerful; also Polar Bear faunus his name is Bahrdiil Cel’drun and he wields a two handed halberd with one hand which turns into a double-barreled shotgun with one hell of a bayonette his semblance is “True Temperance” and basically gives him personal AC/heating with minor protection from fire/ice dusts he specializes in rescue missions operating in both vacuo and mantle depending on where his bar tab is lowest
Small off screen interactions shouldn't be too bad right? Like sharing one maybe two of the same classes at Beacon or seeing them in the background. perhaps hearing rumours about some stuff going on during volumes 1-3 but not getting involved too directly. My original characters basically do stuff like that.
My oc Just mention that beacon already may have some enthusiastic team that already done something stupidly good things and that they huge pain in one place and that this are possibly broke more rules than cartoons .
I once made an OC Faunus who was the child by rape of Jacques Schnee because I could totally see Jacques doing such a thing. The character's motivation was to figure out who his father was and kill the man. I wound up scrapping the story due to writer's block. Do you have any OC fic recommendations? Good ones are so hard to find.
Just had a great idea for a rapunzel-inspired (the Tangled version) Faunus. Her parents don't want her leaving Menagerie because they are afraid for her safety but she really wants to travel and see other places.
I had an idea for two OC... Saturn and january...two high level bounty hunters with the power, saturn, to slow down time around himself for a few seconds, and january, to switch people's position in space, including himself.
So since Maria had access to gravity dust are you saying that she had contact with Atlus? Obviously she did after she lost her sight but you think she did before as well?
My OC is meant for kanon named Kori Hēisè arctic fox faunis based off of the fox spirit from eastern mythology (China + Japan) semblance is called fox fire, came about while almost experiencing a near death experience from a Grimm
I alter one of my team members semblance from TERANOVA to DECAY/RUST power activated by breaking her own aura on command so her weapons tend to break more often but the rust left behind can make more resilient weapons so had to learn to fight with multiple types of weapons in case hers break in the field.
I've been actually been working on my OC team so this is very helpful to know and I have a lot of work to do also there's a lot of things I want to know so I can make them cannon as much as possible. And of course drawing my own OC in a RWBY theme
I made a mech pilot. Because we need more mech pilots in this universe. And yes the mechs weapon transforms. Its basically Ronin's broadsword from Titanfall 2 but it turns into a railgun. He's basically the result of the Ace Ops getting their asses kicked by RWBY last volume so Atlas went "fuck it lets try something new" Which resulted in a spray of equipment upgrades ranging from Remnants equivilent of the Spartan program to giant mechs with swords as stated.
Very helpful! Keep these OC vids coming. Turquo Mauve for Cannon Rwby born 60yrs after the Great War on Dragon Island. Can an OC have a glimpse of the Rwby teams from afar or hear about these awesome teams? Where can an OC learn about dust and it’s applications? Do all kingdoms have a general knowledge or is it just limited to Atlas?
He'd definitely have to be from Atlas, but I had an idea for a character based off the Norse god Tyr, whose prosthetic right arm is a projection made entirely of hard light dust that can be fluidly manipulated like Vine using his semblance, or like the red lotus water bender from legend of korra. Anyone have some constructive criticism? Would he need to use his Aura to manipulate it? Would that mean he can't control it if his Aura breaks?
Hello Phoenix lovin your OCs still waiting for the rest of SRPH,and your review and analysis are on point even when I dropped from the rwby series with volume 4-6 also lovin Seraphina and Zelena,but question are their such thing as Nomads or travelers Carvan where people travel across the 4 kingdoms.
I have a character who knows about Salem, but she only learns of the existence of Salem after she has graduated from Beacon. Plus her story line is before Rwby or even team STRK’s stories as I had her become one of the first Faunus to graduate beacon. Also, I really appreciate these characters videos, it’s helped me make better characters, so thank you!
"No interaction with the canon characters". I have to disagree with that statement. OC can interact with canon characters by having them meet in past events before the show begins or in the future after the show ends. This is the case for two of my OC for my version of team SLVR. The leader of my team was a student at Signal Academy with Ruby, during the Vytal Festival he wanted to meet up with her but do to events in his story he had to return to his home village. After the attack on Beacon he had to leave signal so he could take his sister to Menagerie to find their grandparents because their parents had been killed during a grimm attack at their village. One of my other characters has meet Blake when she was in the White Fang. She only meet her on a couple mission but does not really know anything about her. She saw Blake as a traitor when she left the White Fang but later understood why she left after the attack on Beacon. My character leaves the White Fang as well and goes to Menagerie to the orphanage she grow up in. She gets there after the events of the show because she is also hiding from the White Fang.
I partially agree with you, but I can still see where he’s coming from; the way I see it, if you could swap a nameless background character in a scene with your character and nothing would change regarding the canon plot, it’s fine. If your character when to Signal while Ruby was there, it’d only be natural he would have interacted with her. That doesn’t mean his presence affected her story.
I have a character that used to follow Adam in the white fang and knew of Blake but never interacted with them. I'm honestly surprised that lined up with this guideline.
So I got a question about this, what if an OC witnessed a Canon event in there past but just went unnoticed by the Canon cast? Could that character be considered Canon because the event happened in Canon and there were background nobodies around to see it so the idea of some kid being in the crowd being impacted by that isn't really farfetched is it?
Not a dumb question at all! It's refreshing to see people making non-huntsman characters 😊 The location that a character would be born into would influence how they view the world growing up. Whether that be the upper class of Atlas in a society that looks down on others, or the Kingdom of Vacuo where everyone distrusts the other Kingdoms. It would also depend on what role models the individual has in their life that helps to shape who they are. Are their parents absent? Or do they inspire their child to follow in their footsteps becoming a craftsman, a fisherman, a shopkeep, etc.? Did they meet someone else in their life that helped inspire them or was it something they had to learn themselves while working with or against the society that they live in? Each of the paths that one could take will likely be influenced by the Kingdom that they grow up in but there are many paths that one can take writing a character
Including a cannon character in your character backstory is acceptable in certain cases. For example a character I plan on creating for RP is a fan of the legendary huntsman Qrow he has never met them in person just like I have never met Simo Häyhä, but Qrow is still as his inspiration...
I went with alter universe story plot but, are things do happen from RWBY events that is more talk about as history for this universe story that takes place 60 years later. For example, clock tower of Beacon complete destroy during the fall of Beacon is why there a new tower looks different and, having famus huntsman and, huntress status from docking port of the airships leading up to the new clock tower. Just in case if you want to know, team RWBY status are in the inner courtyard where Qrow and Winter had their fight in volume 3.
I kinda made a character that her father fought in the great war long ago but was dead mysteriously as well another character i made told that he was trained as a military soldier both in atlas.
I'm interested to see a team named HGWS (Hogwarts) with each member representing Gyffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Those house names would be their last names.
my oc is a faunus that grew up in mantel and was bullied by a group of random kids and teens he unlocked his semblance after watching these kids push his only friend infront of a car that ran his friend over his seblance is called projection which allows him to project memories and even emotions in a small raidius
How minor does a character have to be to be considered no breaking canon? Like if a OC interacts with Weiss's father or Whitey, would that be considered okay?
Depends on the context. If an OC interacts with a character in any way that will impact the Canon character in a meaningful way, then I would consider it non-canon. In the case of Jacques Schnee, an example of a potentially Canon interaction an OC could have would be as an employee at the Schnee Dust company or a regular butler in the Schnee manor that Jacques never bothered to learn their name. Something that could be very significant for the OCs story but for Jacques it's nothing that would change his story or conflict with who he was and what he did in the show
I am making a team for a ff I am planning on writing. My 2 main ocs are Spiders and personal favorite units of Lil Miss m Malachite. They were going to be connected to Haven but I was wondering if Haven is possible since volume 5 happened and there would be no way to not connect with Canon if a part of Any Academy since they would encounter canon characters one way or another right? I'm planning on doing au because that is such a pain to follow but it's strange to me.
First of all, good work! I find your videos really fun to watch and pretty nice to people who's insecure to create OCs! Just some comments and opinions no-one-need-to-care XD Honestly, I'm really fine with anyone interacting with Canon characters. Even if I get the point of "non-interaction rule", isn't the point of making an OC being having fun? Even when people create an overpowered character, if they're having fun AND not bothering others with it, what's the problem? They're writing a fanfiction with these overpowered characters? Just don't read it. Simple.
As to non Canon characters and messing with other characters backstories you could make one of yanks friends like I did, ya know the group of sillouhets that yang ditched ruby for in episode three I think
While I had created some OCs a few years back, it is now thanks to this serie that I'm considering things like backstory abd worldbuilding into their assets. For the time being I'm trying to create a team in canon universe, and this video (and series) was a jewel in getting started. Btw. I don't know when you might see this comment, but is it possible you could make a video on how to name weapons for RWBY characters.
In regards to the past, the leader of my OC team held the record of winning the Mistral Regional Tournament 3 years in a row. I figured that due to age/time Phyrrah wasn't around for those fights. Would we view this as breaking canon?
Considering the only mention of the Mistral Regional Tournament was that Pyrrha won several? No. We have no clue who won it before her, when she won it, when she didn't, and even if its still going.
Technically Yes this would be breaking canon as it falls into the category of "what if everyone else did this?" I definitely understand wanting a skilled character but if everyone has a Kingdom wide tournament winning character then it doesn't really work as that would raise the overall power level of students in Remnant. For your own story though, it would be completely fine, my definition of canon is just considering all canon OCs to exist at the same time
@@PhoenixNight I guess with the whole existing at the same time thing, I have seen OCs that are based shortly after The Great War, with people who put their OCs into specific time frames. With not as many OCs based during that time period, would this not open up a kind of flexibility with things like this? P. S. I do not currently have any OCs in the time frame, planning to though, wanted to get an opinion on this first.
@@Cobalt_Rain Oh for sure that would open up a bit of flexibility. I guess I should specify that I meant all Canon characters exist in the same world, not necessarily at the same time if they are meant to be in the past. Though, most people design for current timeline and balance has to be considered with power level
My oc team, Team PRCN (porcelain)*, start attending Atlas Academy during the year after the Fall of Beacon. Two members grew up in Atlas while the other two members grew up in Mantle, so aside from watching the tournament the year before, they have no proper idea who any of the main characters are. I wish we knew when a new school year at the academies started so I can properly place them in the show's timeline, as ideally I want them in the background for V7 and V8, at the moment I'm just thinking it started somewhere in V4??? *Also, I know it might make more sense to have the team name be PCLN, but I really like my 'R' OC's name so I don't really want to change it 😂 I really enjoy these videos, they are very helpful!
Well one of my OC’s Venus Orlagh is a Atlas elite so she have been on many socialite event. Would it not make sense if she did mingle with Weiss or Winter sometime then. Because isn’t not that how the Atlas elite socialize in the canon of RWBY?
I kinda sorta disagree with your interpretation of creating and installing OCs. Every thing that is fan-made is technically an AU since the content they put out is not featured in the RWBY show whether that's one-shots that fleshes out character relationships between Weiss and Yang for example or a completely bonkers medieval AU. I agree with your tenants of making sure OCs don't break the laws of physics as that in general creates a more engaging narrative but imagining every OC created exists simultaneously is restricting and uncomfortable. I feel that any OC/Fic is in of itself, within it's own universe and continuity
One of my OCs is a human that is adopted at a young age by fish Faunus in Menagerie. She washed ashore in Menagerie with her mother who was on her last legs and begged the fish Faunus to take care of her 5 year old baby girl. They take her in and raise her in Menagerie.
She'd be meant for the canon universe.
Wish there’s more information about the training schools like Signal and Sanctum Academy. It would help me determine the backstory for my own character
Personally I wish we got to see more of the Beacon curriculum like how in the Harry Potter books they showed each school year, basically I want to know the difference between a 4th year student and a 1st year student when it comes to knowledge/power. Team CFVY were only 2nd years but their power level was far higher at the time than team RWBY, it kinda makes you wonder if the average 4th year's more or less Pyrrha tier.
Edward Armstrong I completely agree. Maybe they’ll reveal this in a comic in the future
We only have a few things confirmed up to now, like the fact the Combat Schools share a common theme with the Academies for their names. Vale has Beacon + Signal so things showing the path, Vacuo has Shade + Oscuro so things related to shadows (vital to live in the desert), Mistral has Haven + Sanctum so places of safeness... but I still wonder if Atlas has only one school fused to the Academy or its own combat schools, which I guess would be named after things to keep you warm like a Mantle. Personally I made up Satellite in Vale and Foyer (a word for fireplace) in Atlas for OC needs.
About curriculum, we know that in canon Beacon teaches things among Plant Science, Stealth and Security, Weapon Crafting and Upkeep, Grimm Studies, World History, and on Phoenix's Discord another list for potential non-canon subjects to teach was made.
Same I want my character to be from vacuo but there’s not much info about it
@@animatednerd3428 read after the fall and before the dawn and you'll realize there's more information on it than any other kingdom
"Main character's story aka Ruby's story cannot be intefered with" Fair but thats were fanfiction come in my friend
I think the idea is just OCs, rather than for fanfiction. Basically just little background characters you can pretend exist there.
Please do a "Most common RWBY fanfict cliches" I wan't to know what you think about it.
The headmaters of the academies would be probably exceptions seeing as they most likely would meet the ocs as students
Yeah. Same with the teachers in general.
I would like to agree but it still isn't canon
It could be, that they do meet up.
But the Backstory for the characters don't connect with the OC
We could have storylines for our OC's where they at least see the canon characters
As long as we don't break the universe itself
Personally, my team's situation with canon characters is that to them, the canon characters are doing canon things in the background and my team just doesn't notice them at all.
That’s a very effective way of doing this. Hell, it’s more than likely splinter groups of Huntsmen around the other continents are basically doing MOP-UP operations on The Grim.
Helloooooooo!❤️ I made an oc, she assists the shopkeeper😂
I love this 🤣
YAY
Oh good shopkeep needs the help
Shopkeeper is technically Canon and has always been shown to be alone, so idk if we can have an OC helping him.
You mean GOD?
I think in the future you should discuss about how people can find ways to have their OC designs brought to life if they can't draw.
And if anyone is curious, my OC Team is AZUR -
Azrael Boltz
Zoe Legion
Ukitake Uri
Ralph Exvius
Azure you say????
Ngl i started making my OCs before learning how to draw
My main OC grew up in Mantle, but was forced to move to Vacuo after an incident at his combat school. Adjusting to the climate is definitely something I considered in his backstory and attitude.
Speaking off After the fall and Before the dawn, are we going to talk about Neptune's semblance off Water attraction (ironic as he's scared off the water and we know why now) and Scarlet's semblance gliding, which we have seen in season 3 now to think about it. He got lifted into the air by Dew's tornados and glided to the ship's mast.
There’s a reason I’m so familiar and have a tendency to create a Alternative Universe, it’s easier, but then I can scales the character down to fit the canon lore/rules, I’m Epcot from your discord btw
Seriously, anyway when you create an OC and if it in then you just created an AU anyway so go the full mile.
I'm watching this not for an RP or what not, but for the development of a game where the player is sort of inserted into the story, along with a handful of other original characters to smooth the transition and fill up Beacon Academy's student roster. I must say, you're doing an excellent job with these types of videos!
*laughs in crossover oc*
I kinda subvert it by mostly having a character's story set in the past, just a few years after THE GREAT WAR. Very interesting times with what I see as way more competent fighters born from the flames of war, a new golden age of relative peace coming soon, and tons of smaller conflicts probably popping up here and there due to governments and people being forced to change.
That's not to bad
Honestly I was surprised that there was no jack and the beanstalk character in vol 7, given the Marxist class system that was going on. When I made my Jack Oc, I imagined a scene where Salem got the creation relic and in turn cause atlas to start falling. My oc would combine his titan semblance with Jaune to literally hold the city and then use earth dust to solidify it, creating a scene that would reference the titan atlas holding up the heavens as a mountain.
that would be awesome
I need more info about oc and I been confused too that there weren’t been Jack and Beanstalk based character .
I made an OC based on jack and the giant beanstalk! It’s still a working progress... but I love my OC and my team👌☺️
holy shit that's smart as fucc
Marxist never heard that word before?
“It’s best not to have connections with the canon characters”
My characters who shot at Blake: I’m a stop you right there friend
Haha, I also disagree with the non-interaction rule. If your OC was a 3rd year student at Beacon for example why wouldn't they fight during the fall next to a professor? In fact maybe your OC looked for someone strong like Glynda in order to increase their chances of survival.
So if the interactions are small and don’t change canon they’re fine then?
My Character who fights Qrow on a daily basis: 🙄
@@sugdolomar i think fighting Qrow on the daily is fine so long as it's like a sparring partner thing
@@insanityshimmerheart3875 yeah about that...
Opal. Her semblance is Flicker Fusion Alteration. She can alter her "flicker fusion rate", making it go faster. This makes her perceive time in slow motion. She sees the world in slow motion, but she is not bound by that slow motion herself. Its not so much time manipulation, as it is rather she is perceiving/experiencing a dilation due to her FFR. This is similar to the difference in how a housefly (which has a MUCH higher FFR than a human, sees the human moving in slow motion, giving the fly PLENTY of time to move out of the way of the humans strike.
Time manipulation with out time manipulation, coming from an ACTUAL IRL thing. Oooooh yeeeeaaahhhh! :)
I know you said to do the location first. But my plan for my ocs is that they are essentially redesigns of older ocs from a now cancelled project
I’m completely reworking them (like the protagonist is almost completely new. The only the only hold overs from the original are his personality kinda and a vague connection to ice) but I already have a base idea
You can bend the rules just like Ozpin said. You can have your oc interact with the main characters and be apart of their backstory but can not break the Canon. For example if a characters backstory has many characters or interactions with other characters that were never named or shown then you can fit an Oc into it but then you run into the problem of everyone wants to do that. After all we don't get every time with these characters there is uncounted time that an oc can interact with the Canon characters.
“You can’t have your OCs influence the main RWBY story...” why not? I’ve seen people write AUs/fanfics where there OCs are part of the RWBY. The whole reason I made my OCs was because I wanted them to be some what part of the story
That's only if you want to write int the Rwby verse, if not the most of those would be au's
As far as Canon interactions go, well I have a few. Krystal was born into the Branwen Tribe tho remained in the backdrop too shy to approach Qrow and wanted nothing to do with Raven but spent some time at sea with her father, a pirate. Ebony grew up in the upper echelon of Atlas , but upon hearing of a Schnee enrolling at the Academy she thought "why not". Okay, so Schnees are Very influential in the world of Remnant so indirect interactions could happen. Rudy, well, he never encountered the Schnees directly but his Father worked directly with Nicholas Schnee given the whole Rudolph/ Santa dynamic which is why his family is still upper middle-class in Mantle. Marron was snuffed out of an opportunity to perform at a banquet because she was a faunus and Fritz never let this down as he was passive-aggressive towards Winter amongst other issues to the point of being expelled from Atlas 2 months before graduation. Gaspar attended Sanctum a year ahead of Pyrrha so losing in a sparring match was bound to happen. So that's ALL of SGRP(sugar plum). Other than that, Brick, Styx ,and Hailey came over to help fight the White Fang at Haven with Sun and Blake. Tell me if any of these cross the line.
I made a team called HMNY (harmony) led by Harper oak, the other members are: myria sky, Nico dark and Yin dark
I posted a thing about harper on a previous video but basically myria is a bird Faunus with blue feathered wings and yin is a dog Faunus (yin is a girl) nico is not a Faunus but is yin’s brother their dad was not a Faunus and their mom was a bird Faunus too. Their parents got arrived in secret as many did not accept a Faunus and a human being married, their semblances are: Harper has levetation, myria has greatly enhanced sense in an are around her, nico can create things by writing in a book (they can be living beings) and yin can use portals.
Their weapons are: Harper has a spear that becomes a gun or a dagger it is also able to use fire and lightning dust , myria has a bow that uses ice and wind dust and can become a staff. Nico has a dagger as a secondary but he mainly fights by using his semblence to create monsters or other weapons. Yin has dual sickles ( mini scythes basically) with gravity dust. I’ll post a backstory on an edit to this comment at some point
This is all very useful info, thank you! I absolutely love the way my main OC came out, the problem is just finding where he would belong
Most of what I do is alternate universe and what if scenarios, but my main team BLAC is written mostly to fit in the timeline. They were present at the fall of beacon, but they were fighting on the other side of the school grounds and moved into the city itself. That being said I have a LOT of alternate universes because I eat that kind of thing up lol
From Vale. His story takes place in an alternate universe called the Agniverse, so he can be a major player. Therefore he doesn't mess with the actual story. Agniverse story:
His mom is like trying to "cleanse Remnant of all impurities", but nothing's perfect so yeah we gotta stop her. The reason Agni is fighting her is originally HE was gonna be Lord Deus Ex Machina but he left so now it's her. He teamed up with this version of Neo because they have a similar backstory. He may or may not have a crush on Yang, lol
It was such a shame when I lost control of a bird Grimm and it ate some guy with a Bowler hat back at Beacon.
Yeah i wanted my characters to tied to criminal activity. Thanks to mistral that became the logical place.
Two characters were raised out side the kingdom and became tied to the spiders. the other two ended up being a part of a crime group that i made located within the main kingdom.
Where it got really cool is that the group in the city had a weapon smith as a part of the group and so those two got more complex weapons then the other two.
In my fan stories, one of them's dad is a weapon smith and another one lives in the same city and is his friend so they get completely custom weapons for their birthdays the year before they go to study at Sanctum on the condition they pay a visit on breaks to get their weapons checked up.
My newest iteration of my OC and the story
Takes place in an Alternate timeline, where the Canon events in backstories still happen as do other events. But the Circumstances are altered to a point that make it comfortably placed in a nice middle ground.
As for interactions, yes my new version does interact with the canon characters but only after their backstory.
My OC had his Semblance and his aura awoken at the same time by a forced Artificial way, he was experimented on with an Aura Stimulant {Basically a type of system using Atlasian tech that a Rouge Scientist put together} this experiment caused him to get PTSD and a Psychopathic Split personality
I discovered your channel a few days ago and you reignited my passion for RWBY. XD
Working on multiple OCs now.
I created my oc’s ages ago and made them all the children of my favourite ships so all of my characters are very not canon
But an AWESOME alternate universe!
My OC team is meant to be seniors at Beacon when RWBY is formed, since so many fanfics featuring a full team (at least that I have read) put their OCs either after Salem is defeated or years before team RWBY came to beacon.
But disregarding what parts of team RCGL's story breaks canon, like Rayna coming to Beacon on Qrow's recommendation and a brief conversation with Ozpin, or Lucius being given transfer papers to Beacon by Professor Lionhart, where each of my OC's come from does have an impact on their personalities and semblances (all of which are described on my deviant art page).
Rayna Drake lived in a village on the east coast of Vale as a kid, but her village was ravaged when she was 5. She lived on her own in a cave in the wilderness for the following twelve years, but close enough to civilization that she isn't completely feral. But she wasn't exposed to as much faunus hatred until she encountered a bully at beacon. Regarding her semblance, it activated on its own when she was around twelve, and ran amiss of a beowolf and was forced to fight.
Cian comes from Vacuo (specifically a village built on and in the side of a canyon, since a desert would have a canyon), and as such, he hates people who are wasteful with what they have or take it for granted. He also dislikes people who judge others based on appearance, which now that I think about it could be a plot point in my story. But his semblance didn't activate until he started attending beacon (Still a work in progress on the details).
Gilderoy lives in Vale but his Grandfather was from Atlas. He isn't as arrogant as most from Atlas (again, thanks to his Grandfather) but his personality is best described as lax because of pragmatism. He's an inventor, always fiddling with machines due to his aspirations to found an engineering company to bring a little touch of Atlas to Vale (and eventually the other kingdoms as well). Despite being laid back (even more so than his Vacuan teammate Cian) he is still constantly thinking of ways to carry his team. I still need to work on how his semblance activated.
Finally, there's Lucius. He's from Mistral, and while he does disregard the faunus, he has no outright hatred for them. He also looks down on others (at first) because he is so determined to fulfill his dream of becoming a huntsman that he casts those around him to the wayside. His semblance (probably the most world-breaking thing about team RCGL besides Rayna being a Dragon Faunus) activated in a tantrum he had as a young kid about wanting to be like his two older brothers.
Additionally, I also wanted each of them to have a link to the relics protected in each kingdom.
Rayna had tried to steal from a store for food and supplies. Qrow confronted her and in the "fight" that followed (he's a legendary huntsman, she's a self-taught homeless girl, do the math) he was nonetheless impressed and introduced her to Ozpin, who gave her the choice to put her skills to use protecting others, which she accepted mostly because she was tired of living on dumpster scraps and stolen supplies.
Cian...well, I'm still not sure how to associate him with Destruction, in a way that's just dark enough for a RWBY character's backstory but not dark enough to work for the DCEU.
Gilderoy is an inventor who's family came from Atlas, and he's a skilled inventor in his own right. His motivation is wanting to create his own legacy, rather than just be known as the grandson of a legendary huntsman, and he also wants to create things for his fellow huntsmen and huntresses.
Lucius' semblance (as world breaking as it is) stems from the idea of knowledge of other people's powers. He's also the Blake of team RCGL in that 99% of the time, he has his face buried in a book. He craves the knowledge necessary to further his goal of becoming a huntsman.
Now, I originally planned to reverse the Ideals symbolized in Cian and Lucius, since Cian's semblance grants him knowledge of the future and Lucius wants to destroy the misconception his parents had of him that he would never be able to survive as a huntsman. But I realized that all four of them can exhibit the concepts of each of the four Ideals, and that the kingdom corresponding to each of them should have the strongest connection. So I still need to work on Cian's connection to destruction.
I have made my team JADE be from the same graduation class as STRQ but they never really had any contact, it was a coincidence that they're from the same graduation class but they had different class schedules. Being the same year as STRQ was to establish their age group. But they came from different kingdoms so they have different perceptions:
Jade is from the slums of Mistral and is a little snide but was one of the residents who weren't backwards towards faunus
Azul is from menagerie but he was the son of merchants and he's nonchalant
Daisy is from a border town between vacuo and vert and she is sunshine personified bcoz she's optimistic despite having a few struggles and growing up nomadic.
Evergreen is from the outskirts of Vale and is energetic and he was one of the few children in his tribe since a lot of the members are elderly or single adults
I was Thinking
in make a fic of ruby about the great War, like the Genaration 0 of Huntsman.
Does anyone know how accepting people in Argus would be of a faunus in a similar boat to Iliya in the sense that it would be easy to hide their trait? I have a character like that and am in the process of writing his full backstory and already wrote down one reason for his semblance to arise and am just questioning if I should make it a more serious reason as opposed to trying to hide and not being a to find a hiding spot during a hide and seek game at a friends birthday party
I think that tbe guides of the rwby fanon website is really nice and very thorough even its a bit outdated
When your making an oc who used to be a member of the spider organization
My characters are set about 4 or 5 years before the events of rwby volume 1.
That is completely fine, mine are about 3 years before Volume 1 as well. I just make sure to not interfere with Canon events to keep the Canon storyline the same ☺
Your last video inspired me to create my own Original Character 🤘👍
I'm writing an AU fanfic where four of my OCs meet up with Team RWBY during the events of V4 to make sure they arrive in Mistral in one piece. Whenever I write about their time before the show's events, which is a lot give that they're 8-9 years older than Ruby, I make sure that their actions lead to things unfolding in a way that results in the show's events taking place up until my OCs meet Ruby and her friends.
Over time, Ruby becomes far more confident, especially once she realizes she's the only person in all of Remnant who can keep one of my OCs in check no matter what happens.
I am currently working on a new version, looking more into some aspects like Yang mastering her semblance, and doing some stuff like that.
For example, one of my OCs, Talia Star, has a PhD in theoretical and applied aura theory (two different things, she got a PhD in both). She knows more about aura than most people, including the professors at Beacon, and was able to figure out the ins and outs of Yang's semblance just by watching her use it in the tournament. She's teaching Yang to absorb energy on a smaller scale, aka the impact of air molecules displaced by an opponent's weapon moving towards her, as well as sense where she absorbs how much energy. She also learned to release smaller amounts of energy, instead of all of it at once, and can effectively predict incoming attacks before they hit her, because she senses the air hitting her. Also, she's always angry now, which was a big step in controlling her semblance.
Couldn’t a way you could still have your OC to be influenced by one of the cannon characters is to have them, like your character Rey, grow up hearing stories and be influenced by those stories?
I think the rule for it more-so means direct interaction/influence. Because it's entirely logical that a kid could hear about how badass Qrow is, and while never meeting their idol, could still be inspired by him to become a Huntsman. Hell, that's literally part of Ruby's backstory! Just as long as it's not like the example Phoenix gave where "OC is saved by or met [canon character]".
ok, never really dealt with making OCs so wasn’t 100% sure what all of the rules were
Dumb question but would it be ok for canon if an OC's parent was a member of the Mistral council? My idea was one of my characters would be a Faunus with both a human & Faunus parent. The human parent (mom?) would be a member of the Mistral council trying to push for better conditions/ treatment for the Faunus. Obviously to be canon she can't actually change anything but, with Mistral being Anti-Faunus, it makes sense that her words would fall on deaf ears.
Also we never see the Mistral council so.... yeah?
Edit (Additional thought): She could be a low ranking council member or aide if being on the council is too much.
Your vids are very helpful!! I’ve redesigned my Oc team “PERL” to make them make sense!!
Also I made a character that is weis' cousin on his mothers side but to blake on his father's side because I dont care if its considered Canon or not
I have a slight issue with the idea of not speaking with long term group leaders like I get the thing with Qrow but how do you join the White Fang for instance if you didn't sign up though Sehera Kon? I guess there is Adam's faction but he's a more pivotal character with a great deal smaller amount of followers then those how follow the actual leader.
A simialar deal with the Spiders how can you join without speaking to the leader?
And we can't just create few factions other wise there will be like 1000 then 2000 so on so forth factions for a group.
It makes more sense that the leader let in then forgot scores of qualified members then allow scores of factions doing as they please without their control or will.
I was more referring to having detailed relationships with established characters. Like having an OC that was Ruby's childhood best friend or Ironwoods top commander before winter, etc. Those would be non Canon because of their interactions with Canon characters.
Every student accepted to or graduating from an academy is expected to have seen or interacted with teachers or headmasters but it's all about designing a character to fit within the RWBY Canon so as not to change characters with established backstories
I play a RWBY based D&D game. Most of the characters I've made for the game still fits the criteria you mentioned and I find this funny.
Is it ok to have a canon team that has a canon story with nothing to do with the main cast
But create a story (it’s a fanfic so it’s gunna be an AU) where they do interact as it’s non canon story
Something else to note is that other than the main 4 academies which are considered major acadamies, there should also be a bunch of minor ones, else they'd just be 'The Academies'. This is also a shot at the talk around the first few episodes of Rwby, implying that other than beacon that there are at least a smaller academy somewhere else, as well as (at least) a High school for becoming a Hunter/Huntress from how the talk was going on, since the average age of an entry student was 18, implying Vale is a college.
Very good on peicing that together I didn't even notice they mentioned something like that
I think it was that Scene where Ruby was eating those Cookies
Never thought about it but... outside one of my characters noticing team RWBY in the background... buuuuuuuuuuttttt
I wanted one of my teams member ... one that's way darker than the other 3... have a conversation with Cinder... she isn't against her at all and the end of the short interaction would end with my character wishing her the best of luck... and soon before either yang vs mercury or penny vs pyrahha, (latter was where I was going) would leave her team and the school
My RWBY OC is just some bum faunus who attended Atlas the same year as Winter Schnee that I adapted for a DND campaign home-brewed into the RWBY universe a few years back... like a buff Qrow but kinda cheerful; also Polar Bear faunus
his name is Bahrdiil Cel’drun and he wields a two handed halberd with one hand which turns into a double-barreled shotgun with one hell of a bayonette
his semblance is “True Temperance” and basically gives him personal AC/heating with minor protection from fire/ice dusts
he specializes in rescue missions operating in both vacuo and mantle depending on where his bar tab is lowest
Small off screen interactions shouldn't be too bad right? Like sharing one maybe two of the same classes at Beacon or seeing them in the background. perhaps hearing rumours about some stuff going on during volumes 1-3 but not getting involved too directly. My original characters basically do stuff like that.
My oc Just mention that beacon already may have some enthusiastic team that already done something stupidly good things and that they huge pain in one place and that this are possibly broke more rules than cartoons .
Hmm. Maria didn't seem to have any connection to Atlas but did have gravity crystals in her weapons.
Regarding gravity dust only being from atlas.
Ruby has gravity dust rounds in the Red trailer.
If the OC goes to Beacon, what about Ozpin or any of the teachers?
I once made an OC Faunus who was the child by rape of Jacques Schnee because I could totally see Jacques doing such a thing. The character's motivation was to figure out who his father was and kill the man. I wound up scrapping the story due to writer's block. Do you have any OC fic recommendations? Good ones are so hard to find.
When in doubt, just make your own series.
Just had a great idea for a rapunzel-inspired (the Tangled version) Faunus. Her parents don't want her leaving Menagerie because they are afraid for her safety but she really wants to travel and see other places.
I had an idea for two OC...
Saturn and january...two high level bounty hunters with the power, saturn, to slow down time around himself for a few seconds, and january, to switch people's position in space, including himself.
I wonder if there will be a video covering semblances and making them balanced and trying to match them against the power levels of canon characters?
So since Maria had access to gravity dust are you saying that she had contact with Atlus? Obviously she did after she lost her sight but you think she did before as well?
My OC is meant for kanon named Kori Hēisè arctic fox faunis based off of the fox spirit from eastern mythology (China + Japan) semblance is called fox fire, came about while almost experiencing a near death experience from a Grimm
I alter one of my team members semblance from TERANOVA to DECAY/RUST power activated by breaking her own aura on command so her weapons tend to break more often but the rust left behind can make more resilient weapons so had to learn to fight with multiple types of weapons in case hers break in the field.
I've been actually been working on my OC team so this is very helpful to know and I have a lot of work to do also there's a lot of things I want to know so I can make them cannon as much as possible.
And of course drawing my own OC in a RWBY theme
I made a mech pilot. Because we need more mech pilots in this universe.
And yes the mechs weapon transforms. Its basically Ronin's broadsword from Titanfall 2 but it turns into a railgun.
He's basically the result of the Ace Ops getting their asses kicked by RWBY last volume so Atlas went "fuck it lets try something new"
Which resulted in a spray of equipment upgrades ranging from Remnants equivilent of the Spartan program to giant mechs with swords as stated.
@Killer Orca Can I ask you for some input on a creature or two I'm working on for RWBY, please?
Please reply.
@@praetorianrex5571 Not the original guy but I might be able to help.
Very helpful! Keep these OC vids coming. Turquo Mauve for Cannon Rwby born 60yrs after the Great War on Dragon Island. Can an OC have a glimpse of the Rwby teams from afar or hear about these awesome teams? Where can an OC learn about dust and it’s applications? Do all kingdoms have a general knowledge or is it just limited to Atlas?
He'd definitely have to be from Atlas, but I had an idea for a character based off the Norse god Tyr, whose prosthetic right arm is a projection made entirely of hard light dust that can be fluidly manipulated like Vine using his semblance, or like the red lotus water bender from legend of korra. Anyone have some constructive criticism? Would he need to use his Aura to manipulate it? Would that mean he can't control it if his Aura breaks?
Hello Phoenix lovin your OCs still waiting for the rest of SRPH,and your review and analysis are on point even when I dropped from the rwby series with volume 4-6 also lovin Seraphina and Zelena,but question are their such thing as Nomads or travelers Carvan where people travel across the 4 kingdoms.
Now, if my character is from Mistral and Pyrrha trained in Argus, it would fit thet she grew up admiring her? Like, Pyrrha was pretty well-known
I have a character who knows about Salem, but she only learns of the existence of Salem after she has graduated from Beacon. Plus her story line is before Rwby or even team STRK’s stories as I had her become one of the first Faunus to graduate beacon.
Also, I really appreciate these characters videos, it’s helped me make better characters, so thank you!
I like the urbanism of Mantle
"No interaction with the canon characters". I have to disagree with that statement. OC can interact with canon characters by having them meet in past events before the show begins or in the future after the show ends. This is the case for two of my OC for my version of team SLVR. The leader of my team was a student at Signal Academy with Ruby, during the Vytal Festival he wanted to meet up with her but do to events in his story he had to return to his home village. After the attack on Beacon he had to leave signal so he could take his sister to Menagerie to find their grandparents because their parents had been killed during a grimm attack at their village. One of my other characters has meet Blake when she was in the White Fang. She only meet her on a couple mission but does not really know anything about her. She saw Blake as a traitor when she left the White Fang but later understood why she left after the attack on Beacon. My character leaves the White Fang as well and goes to Menagerie to the orphanage she grow up in. She gets there after the events of the show because she is also hiding from the White Fang.
I partially agree with you, but I can still see where he’s coming from; the way I see it, if you could swap a nameless background character in a scene with your character and nothing would change regarding the canon plot, it’s fine. If your character when to Signal while Ruby was there, it’d only be natural he would have interacted with her. That doesn’t mean his presence affected her story.
I have a character that used to follow Adam in the white fang and knew of Blake but never interacted with them. I'm honestly surprised that lined up with this guideline.
So I got a question about this, what if an OC witnessed a Canon event in there past but just went unnoticed by the Canon cast? Could that character be considered Canon because the event happened in Canon and there were background nobodies around to see it so the idea of some kid being in the crowd being impacted by that isn't really farfetched is it?
So where the characters came from can affect their story, good to know. I've watched your videos for advise in making my own characters. (MRVL)
Dumb question but what if they aren't a huntsmen?
Not a dumb question at all! It's refreshing to see people making non-huntsman characters 😊
The location that a character would be born into would influence how they view the world growing up. Whether that be the upper class of Atlas in a society that looks down on others, or the Kingdom of Vacuo where everyone distrusts the other Kingdoms. It would also depend on what role models the individual has in their life that helps to shape who they are. Are their parents absent? Or do they inspire their child to follow in their footsteps becoming a craftsman, a fisherman, a shopkeep, etc.? Did they meet someone else in their life that helped inspire them or was it something they had to learn themselves while working with or against the society that they live in?
Each of the paths that one could take will likely be influenced by the Kingdom that they grow up in but there are many paths that one can take writing a character
***Cardin is stated to use Gravity dust....
If you want an oc with a canon character "in" the backstory, just pull a Lone Starr: "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate."
Including a cannon character in your character backstory is acceptable in certain cases. For example a character I plan on creating for RP is a fan of the legendary huntsman Qrow he has never met them in person just like I have never met Simo Häyhä, but Qrow is still as his inspiration...
I went with alter universe story plot but, are things do happen from RWBY events that is more talk about as history for this universe story that takes place 60 years later.
For example, clock tower of Beacon complete destroy during the fall of Beacon is why there a new tower looks different and, having famus huntsman and, huntress status from docking port of the airships leading up to the new clock tower.
Just in case if you want to know, team RWBY status are in the inner courtyard where Qrow and Winter had their fight in volume 3.
I think Ruby using gravity dust rounds is canon, Maria Calaviera has gravity dust kamas.
I kinda made a character that her father fought in the great war long ago but was dead mysteriously as well another character i made told that he was trained as a military soldier both in atlas.
I'm interested to see a team named HGWS (Hogwarts) with each member representing Gyffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Those house names would be their last names.
my oc is a faunus that grew up in mantel and was bullied by a group of random kids and teens he unlocked his semblance after watching these kids push his only friend infront of a car that ran his friend over
his seblance is called projection which allows him to project memories and even emotions in a small raidius
How minor does a character have to be to be considered no breaking canon? Like if a OC interacts with Weiss's father or Whitey, would that be considered okay?
Depends on the context. If an OC interacts with a character in any way that will impact the Canon character in a meaningful way, then I would consider it non-canon.
In the case of Jacques Schnee, an example of a potentially Canon interaction an OC could have would be as an employee at the Schnee Dust company or a regular butler in the Schnee manor that Jacques never bothered to learn their name. Something that could be very significant for the OCs story but for Jacques it's nothing that would change his story or conflict with who he was and what he did in the show
I'm thinking of making an OC who acts gruff but is a nice person and I want his semblance to be Necromancy. Is that considered overpowered?
I am making a team for a ff I am planning on writing. My 2 main ocs are Spiders and personal favorite units of Lil Miss m
Malachite. They were going to be connected to Haven but I was wondering if Haven is possible since volume 5 happened and there would be no way to not connect with Canon if a part of Any Academy since they would encounter canon characters one way or another right? I'm planning on doing au because that is such a pain to follow but it's strange to me.
This is completely off topic, BUT I LOVE YOUR BLACK CLOVER SHIRT!!!! Besides RWBY, Black Clover is my favorite show
One of my ocs are from the same town as Ren but never interacted with him or Nora, would that make him non-canon?
Thomas Higgins No, he should be fine.
you forgot Maria when discussing gravity dust...
I created a female spider organization member that is a spider Faunus
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First of all, good work! I find your videos really fun to watch and pretty nice to people who's insecure to create OCs! Just some comments and opinions no-one-need-to-care XD
Honestly, I'm really fine with anyone interacting with Canon characters. Even if I get the point of "non-interaction rule", isn't the point of making an OC being having fun? Even when people create an overpowered character, if they're having fun AND not bothering others with it, what's the problem? They're writing a fanfiction with these overpowered characters? Just don't read it. Simple.
As to non Canon characters and messing with other characters backstories you could make one of yanks friends like I did, ya know the group of sillouhets that yang ditched ruby for in episode three I think
That Scathach figure!!
I see your a man of culture!!
So, a point on Grav dust, Ruby in the red trailer uses Grav dust to pwn some noobs.
While I had created some OCs a few years back, it is now thanks to this serie that I'm considering things like backstory abd worldbuilding into their assets.
For the time being I'm trying to create a team in canon universe, and this video (and series) was a jewel in getting started.
Btw. I don't know when you might see this comment, but is it possible you could make a video on how to name weapons for RWBY characters.
In regards to the past, the leader of my OC team held the record of winning the Mistral Regional Tournament 3 years in a row. I figured that due to age/time Phyrrah wasn't around for those fights. Would we view this as breaking canon?
Considering the only mention of the Mistral Regional Tournament was that Pyrrha won several? No. We have no clue who won it before her, when she won it, when she didn't, and even if its still going.
Technically Yes this would be breaking canon as it falls into the category of "what if everyone else did this?" I definitely understand wanting a skilled character but if everyone has a Kingdom wide tournament winning character then it doesn't really work as that would raise the overall power level of students in Remnant. For your own story though, it would be completely fine, my definition of canon is just considering all canon OCs to exist at the same time
@@PhoenixNight I guess with the whole existing at the same time thing, I have seen OCs that are based shortly after The Great War, with people who put their OCs into specific time frames. With not as many OCs based during that time period, would this not open up a kind of flexibility with things like this?
P. S. I do not currently have any OCs in the time frame, planning to though, wanted to get an opinion on this first.
@@Cobalt_Rain Oh for sure that would open up a bit of flexibility. I guess I should specify that I meant all Canon characters exist in the same world, not necessarily at the same time if they are meant to be in the past. Though, most people design for current timeline and balance has to be considered with power level
My oc team, Team PRCN (porcelain)*, start attending Atlas Academy during the year after the Fall of Beacon. Two members grew up in Atlas while the other two members grew up in Mantle, so aside from watching the tournament the year before, they have no proper idea who any of the main characters are.
I wish we knew when a new school year at the academies started so I can properly place them in the show's timeline, as ideally I want them in the background for V7 and V8, at the moment I'm just thinking it started somewhere in V4???
*Also, I know it might make more sense to have the team name be PCLN, but I really like my 'R' OC's name so I don't really want to change it 😂
I really enjoy these videos, they are very helpful!
Well one of my OC’s Venus Orlagh is a Atlas elite so she have been on many socialite event. Would it not make sense if she did mingle with Weiss or Winter sometime then. Because isn’t not that how the Atlas elite socialize in the canon of RWBY?
i like the black clover t-shirt
I kinda sorta disagree with your interpretation of creating and installing OCs. Every thing that is fan-made is technically an AU since the content they put out is not featured in the RWBY show whether that's one-shots that fleshes out character relationships between Weiss and Yang for example or a completely bonkers medieval AU.
I agree with your tenants of making sure OCs don't break the laws of physics as that in general creates a more engaging narrative but imagining every OC created exists simultaneously is restricting and uncomfortable.
I feel that any OC/Fic is in of itself, within it's own universe and continuity