Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170918133425/@comment-34633327-20171006035644

Arkantos95 wrote: We have too many characters period. This cast is unbearbly bloated even for a series with a non-abysmmal runtime. ({} indicates Exclusion)

Yeah but alot of them are pretty minor in the overarching plot. BRNZ, ABRN, FNKI, NDGO, CRDL, {C}F{V}Y, 22 characters total all pretty minor

(Okay 20 seeing as half of FNKI is unknown. And like it or not Velvet and Coco are technically more important than their teammates due to interacting with RWBY more, with the only member Velvet hasn't interacted with yet being Yang, and Coco technically clueing Ruby in on what really happened to Yang. You don't have to be happy about it but you can't deny it).

The only characters the story needs to focus on are RWBY, JN{P}R, S{SS}N, The Villains (The Main five, Emerald, Mercury, Adam, and Ilia), The O's (Ozpin and Oscar), and the Family Members: 26 total, and some of them are off screen at the moment doing their own thing/out of focus (Neptune, Hazel, Emerald, Mercury, Tai, Jacques, and Whitley), leaving the total down to 19, and if you consider The O's as one character overall now, then thats 18.

While I agree we have alot of characters, its so far nowhere near as bad as it could be. Imagine if we DID have to worry about the 20 minor characters aswell!