Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25343309-20150430230909/@comment-26018514-20150513151210

Phantomlink959 wrote: The entirety of team WGRN got points for

1)learning an art alongisde the main character (same school, same grade, share a few classes, yeah, they're in he same room when learning things)

2)sharing a hobby with the main characters (killing grimm, designing weapons)

3)living with or near the main characters (Same school, same grade, same student housing location, their dorm is a floor up from RWBY and JNPR, but still within walking distance)

No members of team VLCN will be getting the living near MC points, though. I'm currently assuming 2nd year students are in a different building, although team CFVY is 2nd year, but they're not main characters. If I'm not mistaken those are N/A in this situation.

3. Living "Near" is only for times when living near them makes no sense, like if their school only had 4 rooms and your team happened to live right next to RWBY despite being second year. Just living a floor away is far enough to be reasonable.

1&2: Killing Grimm falls under the same profession, but given that RWBY is designed for fans to use that specific profession for OC's I believe that is N/A as well(just as the Pokémon animal companions are exempted so long as they aren't legendary's, because in that world trainers are common), though weapons design falls in a gray area there rather securely more to the side of unnecessary same hobby as an OC.