User blog comment:BalrogLune/Dead Fantasy spiritual successors/@comment-25405817-20150313034841/@comment-32856285-20150313203326

Calm down, I meant no offense to you.

This blog is not about finding references, it's about finding spiritual successors.

Quote: "A Spiritual Successor is a type of sequel that is not part of the same world or story as its predecessor, but is nonetheless considered to be a successor because it's made by the same creators; shares common themes, styles, or elements; or, most likely, both. In other words, it's a sequel "in spirit".

In my mind, the entire layout of RWBY is essentially a more narrative (read: voiced) version of Dead Fantasy and because of this; many of the characters within RWBY can be considered expies of characters used in Dead Fantasy. That's the point of this blog, to spot out the expies.