Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20141218201832/@comment-25555436-20141219045411

Well, if you did, you would see how bad things are regarding RWBY Fanfics. It's one of the reasons I tend to stay away from the RWBY Fanfiction.net zone most of the time.

The originality is almost dead there. To point out some things:

-Wolf Faunus, Cool, Dark, Mysterious-with-a-Shady/Dark-Past Protagonist Cliché. Yes, it's like that ALL THE FUCKING TIME. If you see anything that says "Wolf Faunus", don't read it, not worth it.

-Almost every OC there is a freaking brokenly OP Mary/Marty Sue. How many? 9.5/10 OCs there are Mary Sues. Wolf Faunus are a guaranteed 100%.

-9.7/10 OC or OC Team there does not follow the Color Naming Rules set by Monty.

-I've seen at least 4 Violet Roses. All use scythes. All are Ruby twins. All are more moody and darker than Ruby. And they were all made by different people, supposedly.

-The self-inserts, while never really good, they leave me astonished sometimes for the sheer genericness and unoriginality in them. Always, expect whoever self-inserts to be surprisingly powerful, have a great semblance, and a cool weapon that they somehow know how to use despite never even touching it before. And they are always, always, shipping themselves with Yang. A-L-W-A-Y-S.

-While at first not really obvious, you may eventually realize a good number of White Rose and Bumblebee stories are extremely similar, to say the least.

-There are so many "RWBY Plays X" or "RWBY Let's Play!" and other similar things...at least in Fanfiction.net. Not all of them are good, though some are fun enough. However, the amount of people doing it should prove how not everyone there seems to know about originality.

-And the worst of all. There are a good number of RWBY fics there that are original, well written, and interesting, without using Mary Sues or any other common shit. All of these, all, get pretty much ignored except by a few people, while the Common Shit, the ones that are bad-written, the ones with the Cliché Mary Sues and Marty Stus with the exact same elements, the ones that are always the same goddamn shit, are the ones that will get the most favs, and the ones most seen, and if you read the reviews, it will always be people saying those are good-great and well written, even when they are not.

As for the original, actually-good ones, the reviews are often "Well, it seems interesting, can't wait for next chapter", and that's pretty much all.

As a man that envisions, embraces, and enforces originality, I'm seriously dissapointed in the RWBY Fandom. And that's why I stay often far away from the RWBY Fanfiction.net zone.

That's also part of the reason I say God Emperor Penguin's fics, and Blood Rose, are among the best regarding RWBY Fanfics. GEP's fics, are fun, well written, and original. Blood Rose is, compared to 9/10 of the RWBY fics out there, well written, and original. They both did something good-to-great, unlike the Common Unoriginal Shit.