Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24534644-20170418041049/@comment-25936766-20170703034346

Sentry 616 wrote: Scaling might be the wrong word, but are you even trying to connect your mechs to your existing OCs Someone? Technically yes. But the truth is complicated. See, I normally have 2 sets of OCs: RWBY, and Not-RWBY.

Most are the latter, because I don't like RWBY that much. They are ideas in limbo for different works, of different genres, some similar to RWBY and others completely different.

However, a theme in that set of work-ideas, is a Multiverse; There are multiple universes, with different characteristics of all sorts, and some worlds are present in multiple universes, though due to the different rules, these "AUs" tend to be very different.

And a common theme, is.......a nexus between the universes, which connects them all, including inter-universal travel. Although despite this, the government of that nexus has a variety of limitations anyway.

One of them, is extremely-limited space travel, due to the nexus being...like the inside of a sphere, in terms of shape. The government of the nexus also dislikes the idea of being too "open" in their interactions with these universes from the get-go, and as such they refuse to, say, go to this Dark Fantasy world and develop rocket science.

But I'm going off-track.

NOW, because of the multiple universes, that means that if you exist in 1 universe, you exist in many universes, and while the lives and personalities of those "other yous" can resemble yours, they do differ here and there, sometimes slightly, sometimes heavily.

And because of that, I can reasonably try to adapt X character to whatever of the work-ideas I've thought up, with some limitating self-rules. It also means I have a convenient excuse to port them to Remnant.

THE PROBLEM: Keeping these characters faithful, yet still reasonable for Remnant. Sometimes it's easy, but most of them can make it difficult since one needs to take into account Aura, Semblance, and what we know of Remnant, during the creation of their RWBY-versions.

SO, what happens here? The original work-idea (which has no set name yet) that these Mechs come from, is on a vastly different scale when it comes to power.

The Hunger, or Serina, for starters (The mech is The Hunger, Serina is the A.I. that represents it). Personality-wise she would be 1 hop away from being a Grimm Lantern, with her "most positive" traits being nigh-sociopathy and emotionless sadism.

Power-wise, I mentioned elsewhere the "(Alien) Pseudomagical Nanomachines (from another universe, regarding the original work-idea) with Control over Mass and Energy" idea. Which is purposefully-overpowered by the work-idea standards.

At minimum, she can convert energy and mass into energy or mass, in many ways. Such as absorbing blasts of energy to become stronger, or repairing itself after killing enemies like some sort of vampire.

Just slightly above that, is unleashing the Nanomachines to downright devour enemies, synthetic or organic, like some low-key Moonlight Butterfly. They can be effectively erased by being converted to something non-physical, like light, or heat. (It's not done quickly, which is both good and bad).

And higher above that, she could create things from energy, even organic things. Or, less simply, use the nanomachines to turn X organic/synthetic thing into Y organic/synthetic thing. Now, this would require excessive, absurd knowledge of how that thing would actually work, otherwise it would just fail in some way (She could turn light into a person, but she would need to know about every muscle, vein, bone, organ, functions, blah blah blah).

The aliens who created her gave her extensive knowledge about humankind based on their history so she could deal with them more effectively, but that info did not include biology and anatomy.

SOOOOO....now you see why she's so hard to faithfully port to RWBY.

There's also the thing that:

1) While she has a "body" herself besides the mech, it is basically hardlight covered by her Nanomachines. So she's a walking eraser/black hole whose only limitation is if she feels like doing it.

2) Her appearance was based on a random dead human, who due to cruel coincidence was the cousin of another character, Judicium. And both Judicium and his cousin already have RWBY versions, meaning I cannot even make her look like herself either because there's no justification.

So to answer your question, I'm trying to connect them, from that Mech-using work-idea to Remnant, but it's painfully hard. Meanwhile, not all characters that have a RWBY version have an Alternate version in that work-idea, nor vice-versa.

And, for those RWBY versions, (and RWBY OCs that don't have a Not-RWBY equivalent) only a very tiny amount of them have any sort of fighting style, weapon, or Semblance that could translate to a Mecha while remaining balanced, reasonable, and faithful.

So, there you go.