Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20181210223145/@comment-26018514-20181220002951

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: … IF they had fully realized characters, requiring no animation budget, then yes you'd be right... But they likely didn't/don't.

1.… RT created an entire team for Velvet, who was supposed to be a one-off, and they created Neo for Roman, who was also supposed to be a one-off.

2. Given that Yang's friends were specifically referenced right at the beginning... 3. Depressed Yang could have used friends, but to present them lowers her emotional dependency on RWB. They didn't have to be successful. Rather, her shutting out friends she has nearby would only drive home her fragile emotional state.

1. You are incorrect on both your examples, CFY was stated by the team to have been character concepts they had already and added Velvet to when she was added as part of the fan contest(if Chishio or someone who remembers exactly where this was said could provide the citation on exactly where this was said it would be helpful... it was on some sort of stream/extra or QA between during/between V2-V4).

You are not exactly incorrect on the second... but Neo was made by Monty based on/for a cosplay, which meant he was given the mental image and just needed the voice(hasn't spoken), personality(pretty much runs the same as Torchwick), the abilities(whatever Torchwick needed)

I can see how you missed the first as that tidbit was overshadowed by the rest of that particular extra, it was extremely noncommittal(it was never clear exactly how long CFY had existed pre Velvet, who made them, if they were even on the same team as each other previously or how much of them had existed before that(personally I'd wager Coco was pretty much done with her RoC handbag and the rest were shells), hell it wasn't even clear that RT made them themselves, for all we know they were fanmade and submissions they just didn't know what to do with before. They could have even been Yang's friends originally for all we know.

2. Again, they had to be mentioned because Yang being "popular/friendly" was important to her character, there will be plenty of such people in any story told about charismatic people, It's not like too many people know Hitler's childhood political successes/friends, despite his ability later to make an entire country kill for him and subvert their own better instincts.

3. You misunderstand, had her friends come over and been rebuffed Yang would have looked like a pretty cold bitch, especially when she later screamed at Blake that she needed her. It would have made Yang less likeable and more like Raven. As it was she genuinely appears to have needed RWB because no-one her age even tried to visit.