Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25555436-20141120010811/@comment-24219008-20141122010255

I have an OC who is a second-year who serves as a mentor to the first-year students who also just happens to have been paired with Weiss, but has no romantic interest in Weiss whatsoever, and she only interacts with Weiss, and occassionally Yang, like maybe on a once a week basis (whenever first years are "assigned" to spend time with their mentors). Pretty much all of my other OCs don't interact with Team RWBY at all, and they just know them by name, and don't pay much attention to them. They kind of all exist in their own storylines. So I'd actually consider my characters as far from "Mary Sue" as possible, and I've received a lot of positive feedback on them in the RWBY OC thread on the Rooster Teeth site (which ya'll should check out, it's a pretty cool place with REAL constructive criticism and also a lot of great suggestions for those who aren't too sure what to do with their OCs/weapons/etc.).

But, yeah, I've seen a lot of half-Grimm/Faunus and a lot of split-personality OCs, most of which are written horribly and have to relevance the RWBY lore at all.

As far as the yuri/yaoi stuff goes, my friend has a male OC who has a giant, one-sided crush on Jaune. Pretty much everyone else, like I said, just exists in their own little plots and storylines unrelated to the main cast's adventures.