Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24573226-20160623204034/@comment-25936766-20160827040122

Phantomlink959 wrote:

One of the major themes in RWBY is teamwork and unity. I would not reccomend listening to people who say defying a theme which the series is based around is a good idea. Okay, no. This part is just plain bad advice, just this part.

It's completely irrelevant what kind of theme a fictional work has when it comes to fanworks. They are not forced to follow the exact same theme, and doing or not doing so is neither a good nor a bad idea.

By that same logic, no My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanwork should ever, ever be about something that goes against the idea of "friendship".

If someone wants to make a RWBY fanfic that follows the ideas of teamwork and unity, good for them. If someone makes a fanfic that doesn't, good for them. It won't make their work any better or worse by itself, and they have no reason to follow the theme if they don't want to or plan to. Otherwise, you're just killing creativity for a very dumb reason.

If anything, the one thing one must do is ignore the "defying the show's theme's a good idea" part, and in the same way, ignore the "defying the show's theme's a bad idea" part. Doing such a thing is not good, but not bad, it all depends on the execution.