Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20180525193802/@comment-37411075-20181112024733

SpiritedDreaming wrote: RT uses media which have many different incarnations and no singular personality. The allusions are also extremely loose; small nods to their inspiration rather than porting the entire character in. Enough to say “oh, I can see the signs of Weiss being Snow White” but jot enough to say “She is this specific Snow White from the Disney Version” or whatever.

Picking a Modern character with a very defined personality and abilities and making them a RWBY character generally means you’re not making an allusion with small nods; you’re just porting the entire character in. It’s not an Original Character, its an AU version of that ‘inspiration’.

It is possible to use modern media as allusions. But you have to make the character their own thing, not just “Agent 47 but if he was a Huntsman in RWBY”.

@Umbrellish I was on my phone. Afam is Adam with a typo. Not all RWBY OCs have to be Huntsmen/Huntresses.