Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.216.174.239-20150202232333/@comment-26114873-20150216103819

Ren's works too well with JNPR to just cut out or muten him, especially Nora. Miles, Kerry and Monty went out of their way to show how close the two were, so to cut out Ren's voice would have a big impact on Nora as well, and that would effectively shut down half of JNPR, who are pretty close to being main characters themselves. Writing in a reason for Ren's lack of speech, be it training accident or death would be a huge undertaking, hit the story hard and probably be even more painful for the rooster teeth crew to deal with than the many other options. Both the least painful and most effective way would be to replace Monty. (Replace Monty is a statement that is so saddening to write)

It's my belief that will probably happen is Miles, Kerry and maybe a couple of the animation guys will have a somber discussion about it and ask one of their existing members or friends of the show if they think they'd be up to the task of voicing Ren. His voice as Ren was pretty deep and didn't have too much emotion so emulating it in a way that wouldn't take away from the show wouldn't be too difficult.

Also remember that the absence of Ren in the show, or the absence of the show itself would be in itself even more trying for rooster teeth than almost anything else.

When it comes to the animation department after watching Shane's megaman video I don't feel so hopeless about that. There will no doubt be less wow moments in season four and possibly season 3 depending on how much Monty scaffolded his choreography, but those boys and girls were handpicked and this is a great (albeit tragic and sad) oppurtunity for them to flourish. But the non fighting scenes and the models will be as good. They got a full crew of professionals working on them who know what they are doing. They'll probably need to three or four (probably more given how hard Monty seemed to work) animators to pick up the slack.

Cutting RWBY completely seems too unlikely. It's a major product, has huge community backing, is so good that it's getting exported to Japan (read that it was the first american anime to ever do that), getting its own videogame made for it, has a large production crew that rely on it for jobs etc. The list of reasons why it should stay just goes on the more you think about it.

(Speech syth in my opinion anyway would only hurt and Ren's voice in the story isn't a huge blow. For someone like Caboose maybe that would be warrented maybe.)

Feeling a bit too callous talking about replacing Monty so I'd just like to say that in the entire world almost no one has been able to live up to my standards enough to be considered worth looking up too as a rolemodel. Just based on the few stories I heard about him and the videos he has appeared on I think Monty Oum is probably one of the very very few exceptions.

Wow that was long sorry.