Where in the World? - Crafting Original Characters for RWBY
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2020
- When designing your own characters for RWBY, how they fit into the world of Remnant can affect other aspects of a characters design. The world of Remnant is vast and your characters might be influenced by where there are within it...
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below! What other things would you all like to know about creating OCs?
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"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.
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.
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?
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
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
*laughs in crossover oc*
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????
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.
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?
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.
“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...
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.
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
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 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
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.
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 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
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!
Your last video inspired me to create my own Original Character 🤘👍
Your vids are very helpful!! I’ve redesigned my Oc team “PERL” to make them make sense!!
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
When in doubt, just make your own series.
"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.
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 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.
When your making an oc who used to be a member of the spider organization
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 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.
I discovered your channel a few days ago and you reignited my passion for RWBY. XD
Working on multiple OCs now.
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.
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
Intended as canon:
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Name: Dell Sirius Colby
Race: Wolf Faunus
Kingdom of Birth: Atlas
Age: 17 (V1-3) (Birthday is 11th of November)
Height: 6ft 1in (185 cm)
Weight: 165 lbs (75 kg)
Appearance: Pale Caucasian; fairly tall; well-built; short, spiky black hair with dark grey tips, dark cyan-blue eyes.
Distinguishing Features: Black wolf ears with dark grey tips, prosthetic left arm (black with pale blue accents), stylised howling wolf tattoo on right shoulder (dark cyan-blue), Moonlighters tattoo on his left pectoral (silver with a dark cyan-blue interior).
Clothing:
➢Casual: Dell wears a black leather jacket with dark cyan-blue cuffs over a modified pale blue long-sleeved shirt with dark grey sleeves, as well as dark grey trousers and a pair of black motorcycle boots. When riding his motorcycle, he also wears a black helmet that somewhat resembles a wolf's head. His emblem, a stylised wolf's head, is printed on the back of his jacket in dark cyan-blue.
➢Combat: Dell's combat attire is similar to his casual outfit, only swapping his jacket with black and dark cyan-blue armour covering his chest, shoulders and right forearm.
➢Atlas: After transferring to Atlas Academy post-Fall of Beacon, Dell's outfit is now more suited for the colder climate. His old shirt is now lightly armoured & has light grey sleeves, and his jacket has been changed to a black duster with dark grey padded shoulders and dark cyan-blue accents & lining. Dell's shoes have also been changed, now having boots more suited for the snow, and are now pale blue with black soles. His wolf's head emblem is printed on the back of his jacket in dark cyan-blue.
School: Beacon Academy (previously Prometheus Combat School in Atlas)
Role: Leader, stealth/infiltration specialist, tech/weapons expert
Other Affiliations: Moonlighters
Aura Colour: Dark cyan-blue
Semblance: Blowback- Dell can channel damage he takes into concussive blasts of equivalent force; the more damage he absorbs, the more powerful the blast is. He can focus this energy in a single direction for a more effective push, or release it as an omnidirectional wave to affect a wider area, though this reduces the blast's power considerably. He can only use one blast before having to absorb more attacks, though he can hold energy for 60 minutes between instances of damage before it cannot be released. If Dell's Aura breaks while he has charge remaining within an hour, it is released as an omnidirectional wave, with the same effect as if he'd done it willingly. This Semblance can be used as a means of propulsion in this manner if directed towards the ground. If the charge is not expelled, Dell gains a passive boost to his Aura (higher damage resistance, faster healing etc.) equal to the amount of Aura he currently has multiplied by the amount of Aura he’s lost (i.e. 75% Aura will work like 93.75%, 50% will work like 75%, 25% will work like 43.75% etc.). This buff lasts for 1 hour if Dell’s Aura is not broken.
Activation cost: 5% per blast. Charge accumulation is passive. The dark blue accents on Dell’s clothes glow proportionally to the charge accumulated. AoE has a 7.5ft radius, directed blasts affect a 15ft line.
➢Dust Interaction (blasts only):
○Fire- Directed explosion (focused) or fireball centred on self (AoE)
○Ice: Exploding snowball (focused) or localised blizzard centred on self (AoE)
○Lightning- Line of electricity (focused) or miniature thunderstorm centred on self (AoE)
○Gravity- Doubles blast force
Weapons: Onyx Fragment & Obsidian Shard/Ebony Shadow- A pair of semi-automatic pistols that can transform into duelling sabres (OF&OS), and can combine to form a broadsword (ES); Wolf's Claws- A set of throwing knives with Gravity Dust in the handles.
➢Classification: Twin Sabre Pistol Hybrids (OF&OS/ES); Gravity Dust Throwing Knives (WC)
➢Ammo Types (Dust) [OF&OS]: Standard, Explosive (Fire), High-Impact (Gravity), Stun (Lightning), Freeze (Ice) (carries 4 clips of each type)
○Capacity: 25 rounds/clip (OF&OS); 8 knives (WC)
Backstory: The son of Team ARTK (arctic), an all-Faunus team that graduated Atlas Academy, Dell always envisioned himself as a Huntsman. Growing up with these role models, it's easy to see where he picked up this desire. Dell was trained by all 4 members of the team as soon as he was allowed, alongside the other 2 members' daughter Avani, as well as at Prometheus Combat School (a primary Hunter Academy located in Atlas). He rose through the ranks of tournament fighting fairly quickly, winning his first competitive title, the Atlas Regional Championship, at age 13 and successfully defending it 4 years in a row, earning the nickname of the Black Swordsman at his last contest. The ARC is also where he first met Lucy Almas, with whom he developed a mutual respect, due to them always meeting in the finals of the 13 to 16-year-old section, though he would win the match every time. At age 16, Dell, alongside Avani and their parents' team, went on a mission in Vacuo to help clear out a large number of Grimm, the teens going with them for practical experience. However, only 5 out of 6 members of the group survived, as Dell's father had been felled in combat with countless Grimm, and Dell lost his left arm after being pinned by a Giant Nevermore feather through his bicep. This led to Team ARTK officially disbanding, as they lost a member, and served as a brutal reminder to the teens of the dangers of being a Hunter; however, it did not dissuade them from pursuing the career. A month later, though after a lengthy discussion with the teens and Dell obtaining a prosthetic arm suitable for combat, they all moved to Vale so they could attend Beacon Academy, hailed as the best Hunter Academy at the time. About 2 weeks after moving, Dell was scouted by Amara North, the leader of the Moonlighters' Vale branch, due to his reputation as a skilled fighter. On a mission for the Moonlighters 4 months later, Dell and Amara disrupted a Schnee Dust Company train to gather supplies. Returning home after completing the mission, Dell discovered his Beacon acceptance letter, which had been posted while he was out. Dell officially joined the Academy a month later, though he still occasionally takes missions for the Moonlighters and stays in contact with them.
Personality: Dell is one of the most serious and militaristic students at Beacon Academy due to his Atlesian upbringing as well as experiencing the risks of the career firsthand (no pun intended), though this sometimes gives way to a more joking side, assigning nicknames to his close friends. His drive to be the best Huntsman he can be, as well as the memory of his father, won't let him give anything less than 100% in anything relating to the subject, be it in combat or academics. This leads to a fairly competitive nature and a desire to be top of the class. Dell has developed a level of mutual respect between himself and Pyrrha Nikos, due to their reputations as prominent tournament fighters. Also, Dell has a 'no man left behind' mindset, likely stemming from his inability to prevent his father's demise. Having said that, Dell's most defining feature is his protective nature towards those he cares about, leading to his defensive Semblance. Dell's friendship is not easily gained, but once you have it, he will go out of his way to make time for you, even across continents, as he did for Avani while she was attending Oscuro Combat School in Vacuo, sharing his Faunus base's pack mentality. He also has a strong sense of morality due to being raised as a Faunus in Atlas, leading to a fierce hatred of discrimination and bullying, particularly against his fellow Faunus, even going so far as to call out Cardin Winchester, and by extension Team CRDL, for his/their behaviour in front of the entire Beacon cafeteria.
Trivia:
➢CNR: Dell (Maltese for 'shadow', implying dark colours like black & grey), Sirius (the name of a star, denoting bright colours such as blue and white), Colby (derived from Old Norse Koli, meaning "coal, dark", and býr "town")
➢Inspiration: Big Bad Wolf (Little Red Riding Hood), Kirito (Sword Art Online)
○Big Bad Wolf: Wolf Faunus, Semblance ("I'll huff & I'll puff and I'll blow your house down").
○Kirito: Dual swords, FN Five-seveN pistols, preference of black & grey clothing, tech expert.
➢Theme Songs: Starset- Manifest, Svrcina- Meet Me On The Battlefield
➢The Moonlighters are an international guild of Hunters who offer their services to people who require less reputable tasks to be done to achieve an objective at a reduced cost to most other Hunters.
➢Dell owns a black & grey wolf-hound called Remus.
➢Dell rides a black & dark grey Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle, dubbed Knightshade.
➢Dell is a talented singer like Weiss, as well as being a skilled bass guitarist; his favourite genres of music to perform and listen to are rock and pop-punk, while he also enjoys listening to orchestral pieces, especially piano.
➢Unsurprisingly, given his Faunus heritage, Dell's favourite foods are lamb chops and other red meats. He is also rather partial to pork-based products, such as bacon and sausages.
➢Dell's birthday, November 11th, is Armistice Day, commemorating the end of the First World War and soldiers who died in service to their country. This ties in with his theme of 'remembrance'.
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Any thoughts?
You seem to have put a lot of thought into this.
@@saraluisan.5422 Yeah, Dell (or at least his initial concept, Dillon Royce) is my 1st RWBY OC. Started making him and his team at least 4 years ago; this is pretty much the finished product after multiple designs, Semblances & weapons.
I actually made a RWBY OC based off of the big bad wolf except my character has a different name and backstory and wields a katana that transforms into an assault rifle and began his training at Signal Academy.
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.
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.
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
I think that tbe guides of the rwby fanon website is really nice and very thorough even its a bit outdated
I'm creating my OC and this video helped me a lot, thank you !
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
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
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'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
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
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
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
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.
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)
This is completely off topic, BUT I LOVE YOUR BLACK CLOVER SHIRT!!!! Besides RWBY, Black Clover is my favorite show
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!
Phoenix great vid man also I wanted to know I’m creating an OC right now but I want to know something can your character know of the main cast canon characters
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.
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?
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.
I want to fit them in RWBYVerse with OCs, I still prefer [Any]-Crossver X RWBY.
I actually have two crossover fanfics planned right now.
The first is with Huntik: Secrets and Seekers, where my Huntik OC finds himself transported to Remnant in search of a powerful legendary titan. He arrives in Argus a month before Ruby and her friends do, teaches himself the language and reads up on all kinds of fairy tales and world history, and works his way up the Atlas Military. He would be hella OP if he wanted, but he's the kind of guy to keep a low profile, so yeah.
Then there is my crossover with The Dark Eye (basically German DnD). One of my characters I play in this game, a warrior priest from the church of the god of death, gets transported to Remnant, which is located in a tiny sub-space created by powerful Fae creatures. He ends up in Vale, and stays there, and sort of derails the story when he finds out that Yang tends to lose her temper and go nuts. He asks his god to torment her with nightmares, because blind rage is a sign of demonic possession in his world and he worries that Yang might go down a very dark path. Yang comes to him for counseling, because that's how brutal these nightmares are, and learns to control her emotions. Well, she takes baby steps. Still attacks Mercury and loses her arm, though. The character does the same thing with Adam to bring him back on the right track, but it backfires and Adam makes a pact with a powerful arch-demon. So yeah, that's definitely a fun idea: Adam with blood magic and the ability to sacrifice others to fuel his dark spells. He just has to kill someone, and a field of demonic ash tentacles, claws and maws appears under his other enemies, tearing apart anything in its reach. But my character gives Yang four necklaces which let the wearer summon their spirit animal with the help of the gods (a little something I came up with). So Ruby can ride into battle on an ethereal unicorn that disintegrates Grimm and other demonic entities on contact.
Sorry for the wall of text, got a little carried away.
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!
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...
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.
“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
That Scathach figure!!
I see your a man of culture!!
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.
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Nice informative video
This video brought up some really good points and is actually making me reconsider some parts of a pair of my OCs backstories. One uses small amounts of Hardlight dust in their weapon, the other uses gravity dust, but initially they were from Vale. Definitely going to need to think about how I can make that work, maybe get some help from the discord.
Can I ask you for some input on a creature or two I'm working on for RWBY, please?
@@praetorianrex5571 Jesus Christ, why don't you post your question on the fucking RWBY fandom wiki for that? Makes no sense to ask for permission just to ask a question and I keep seeing your ass make the same comment to different people over and over. Just fucking ask away or go to the fandom wiki.
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 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?
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.
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
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.
i like the black clover t-shirt
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
dude!!!!! that's exactly what i was tripping over and hoped you'd make a video about someday!! thanks a lot, i came up with so much of my bastard's backstory during this vid
I would like to see the weapons, the color naming rule and the academies, I saw that the last one is really special.
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.
I need a second opinion on my OC
semblence keep in mind hes 23, graduated from vacuo, and fairly experienced:
Monkro Byakko
Semblence:
Ex-Flow (Time limit: 3 mins (can extend longer if meditating or trusting without hesitation of choice user nakes) an Adaptive and extremely powerful ability that Grants the user a form of "Flow state" Where like the name suggests allows the user to be in a mental, physical, and in a sense spiritual state where their aura will be in full use not just to use up energy but to also defend and expel energy in the whole body and acting on mere will or trusting every movement they make with a concentrated and calm state of mind. every movement no matter how little makes a huge turn on battlefield by moving on instinct such as dodging attacks, moving faster and automatically, deflecting projectiles for a minute, and for a unique trait allows the user to exceed limits both during and out of Exflow and improving with increased strength and speed. If any issues after surviving in a dire situation (such as tendency to get poisoned) if survives his ability would add slight resistance to any similar damage type towards user However the user must be in a calm state of mind and body and things like meditating in any form for this ability to be more useful in any fights/non combat situations and last longer Weakness: does not allow user to be completely invulnerable, if anything it's more of a buff that gives benefits to user and can run out due to heavily tied to both state of mind if distracting the user and prolonged stamina use can also deplete aura use.
I kinda got a RWBY OCs. His name is William Schnee, sons of Jacques and Willow Schnee, and the oldest of the Schnee siblings.
I'd say the closest my OC's has gotten to the main story of rwby is how my mates OC's who is in the same team as mine has a crush on neo which was from connections my character has with the spiders/other criminals but they haven't really met but have been in similar criminal circles.
Not exactly lawful good characters, least not mine
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."
I like the urbanism of Mantle
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.
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
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.
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
I completely forgot about the Spider organization but I’m in the works of establishing this group of elite assassins kinda like the spiders but a unique thing is they take after a title of Grimm, given that they operate similarly to their Grimm counterpart. So there’s titles like The Shadow Taijitu, The Experimental Deathstalker, and The Cursed Boarbatusk.
Like the new hair
Canon
Two teams in the same year as CFVY, closest to interaction is admiring(or in some cases being jealous of) CFVYs skill and fame in the school. Fought in the Fall Of Beacon, one losing a member and going to Shade, the other in shambles and putting themselves back together as they travel to Haven, only to be a few days away when it’s attacked, causing them to head for the train station and ship out to Shade as well.
AU
This one’s interesting, since this version of Remnant that I’m building is a future version of Earth, where Earth is only a theory known as the old world, even in Salem’s time. There is some universe hoping with the main canon getting a shoutout(mostly as the only canon event amid a range of bizarre scenarios). And all of this built up because I wanted one character to come from somewhere that was short on dust and developed a crude form of gunpowder(oh, and to have a Ford Bronco).
Trying to work the puzzle that is canon to fit an OC in will be tough but is kinda fun. Overlap will happen(c’mon, I still double take reading Team SRPH when I have Team SPHR), but given a limited amount of names and reasonable combinations, overlap makes sense even in canon. However, ignoring the puzzle and seeing how you can build out from the current world can be just as rewarding, seeing what you can create and tying it back to the main canon, such as Remnant as Future Earth. It really boils down to how you want to have your fun in crafting characters.
Can I ask you for some input on a creature or two I'm working on for RWBY, please?
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?
Hmm. Maria didn't seem to have any connection to Atlas but did have gravity crystals in her weapons.
You: "...Can't have knowledge of events."
Me: One word "Iseskai."
I have two versions of team SSOL (Soul) one is a cannon version and the other is a op AU version makes it a lot easier
Well technically as long as a character doesn't directly affect the events of the story they could include cannon characters into the backstory. Like the poor janitor who had to clean up the aftermath of the Yellow trailer or one of the shadow people that were in the class and prom as long as there is no other interaction. Hooray Shadow people!
I agree that would make things easy to a degree
I don’t know why but I would like to to see RWBY in the world of marvel
Im working on my oc team gonna be called team Bleu character names so far are Beatrice Burgundy, Lucifer Blau,Ezazel Zavús and Ursula Noir. Beatrice was inspired by a real last life historic Queen Beatrice of Burgundy, Lucifer obviously loosely inspired by by the biblical Lucifer and is a great sooty owl faunus who has the owl wings that allow him flight , Ezazel is inspired by the sin of Envy or the saying green with envy and Ursula Is based off the seawitch Ursula. From the little mermaid. Beatrice's semblance is a form of Telekinesis, Lucifer's is aura energy Manipulation (of his own Aura only) which allows him to make physical constructs of from his own Aura to creating a energy/aura shield with it to creating a tool or weapon of course this drains alot of his aura so he has to use his semblance sparingly.
Ezazel's semblance is Heart Radar :allows him to read the true intentions of people's hearts, within the surrounding area, meaning he can predict and react to an opponent's future movements before they can conduct them. He can also manipulate this technique to identify and locate people during rescues or helping track down badguys. Unfortunately, this semblence's Power takes a big toll on Ezazel where the he suffers from mental strains, making bags appear under his eyes.
Ursula's semblance is Shadow Tendrils her semblance allows her to manipulate her shadow infused with her aura in where it splits and forms up to 8 tendrils to attack and,ensnare /restrain foes kind of like how vine can extend his aura. She mostly uses her semblance to support her team.
The members of team Bleu character origins are as follows that im working on:Beatrice is born in Vacuo and is daughter to 2 great huntsman who were killed in action when she was 10 and is from a village to the north shade Academy . Lucifer's mother was a ambitious scientist and his father a snowy owl faunus who fell inlove with his human mother. Lucifer had been training in Atlas Academy. while working on a secret project his mother decides that she would use her own son as a test subject. Lucifer's father was very much against this but when his love couldn't be talked out of it he told Lucifer and helped him escape Atlas. Lucifer ended up transferring into Vacuo after legally changing his last name to avoid his mother.
Ezazel was the adopted son of a Immoral official of Mistral. Ezazel was often used by his adoptive father for his semblance during important meetings or jobs so that after Ezazel's father would ask Ezazel personal questions about his peers in order to have some black mail on them that might help him in the future. Ezazel finally had enough and backstabs his own adopted father before running away and making his way to Vacuo.Ursula is a human girl from Vale who attended a combat school unsure if she still wanted to become a huntress or not as she was treated like an outcast because her biological father was a criminal a disgraced huntsman who abused his power over others .During the Vytal festival which she and her mother and sister attended she lost both of them while trying to evacuate during the fall of beacon because of the grimm.With the fall of her dream huntsman Academy beacon and her mother and sister gone Ursula decided to move far away to start a new life and ended up deciding to go to shade Academy to continue pursing her childhood dream of becomming a huntsman where her father's reputation would not reach so she would be treated with more respect.All their paths leading up to them attending Vacuo and meeting and becomming a team.
The way I plan on writing their story When their story together starts they are gonna be shade Academy second years, and their backgrounds will be revealed over time through flashbacks and hints.
My OC is gonna be kinda like a Messenger of the two brothers. Reborn from earth to remnant. The only difference is my OC’s memories of their previous life will be vague but what they know of RWBY and Remnant will be clear as day. Let me know what y’all think 🤔 I could use the feedback. Also no relation to the main characters or anything but will be the first Silver Eyed Faunus. An idea I got from you Phoenix
That would work I guess but the silver eyed faunus, as he has said before, being a silver eyed warrior is extremely rare and that being a faunus with silver eyes is even more rare but if you go deeper I guess u could say that could happen unless that tied into the actual canon later. (Like Salem sent her henchmen after one of ur oc’s and allowed team rwby an opening or something like that)
You Heard me Thanks 🙏 for the feedback. And as for the silver eyes bit I have a plan. One phrase. Gift from the brothers. Silver eyes from the god of light since he is kinda the reason for silver eyed warriors. and the other gift from the god of dark. Not sure what that could be. But the main theme for this OC is balancing both the lighter side of life and the struggles of darkness. Aka emotions.
Lopunny Gal ya that would work out well if they had both. And an idea for a gift of darkness maybe the ability to control or stop Grimm to a certain limit? Like maybe something like Ren’s semblance or at least the ability to make them just straight up not be hostile for some time
My big brain idea involves aliens! More so centered around the current timeline in the canon since I don't have the fortitude for a more in-depth timeline ripple.
My character looks to be born in Mantle, but later he went to Vacuo.
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
A character idea that I have is a character who smbulance him to liquefy his aura to form pools that summon skeletons that he can command, so he keeps vials full of his liquid aura on him at all times He doesn’t like to use it because people The skeletons are to like Grimm and because he is a wolf faunus he is afraid of more discrimination and/or bullying
Sort of like Spartus from greek legend? Hmmmm....
I have no idea who that is