Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24534644-20170124093450/@comment-24534644-20170126225458

WC-83 wrote: I think the very notion of a villain OC (who isn't a crime boss or the like) is fruitless, since RWBY has it's own villains that can't be topped. That's a fair standpoint, if you are creating characters who exist in the same world as Canon. The way RWBY is set up now doesn't allow much potential for individual stories on the same grand level as that of the main Canon cast. Something many writers are fond of doing to circumvent that issue, myself included, is to keep the setting of RWBY, but either set the story in the past or future, or make it an AU entirely. It allows people to make their own characters with their own stories and their own villains without having to worry about overlap with the show's plot.