Talk:Weiss Schnee/@comment-112.206.54.142-20170525134517/@comment-25936766-20170526020052

I don't know about the others, but (the current versions of) some of the OCs I've made or at least thought up are good foils to RWBY characters (and by that I mean Team RWBY. No foils for JNPR so far, as far as I've noticed among mine).

The kicker is, they were completely accidental. Most of said OCs are based on ideas that have nothing to do with RWBY, but I try to "translate" the character to RWBY in a way that feels believable and balanced. That they turned out to work as foils is good, but not what I planned.

So IMO, don't focus on making a foil, just make the OC and trust in the Centipede's Dilemma; the harder you think on how to do X, the harder it will be to do X.

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Don't sweat it, regarding your vocabulary. I said the bit about "big words" mostly due to association.

My first assumption when I see an anon is to think they are a child, an idiot, possibly both. Mostly because 9/10 anons that come here are like that IMO. So if I see one using a "less simple-than-usual" choice of words, my first conclusion is not that they are "smart" or anything, just pretending they are.

And it's not entirely unreasonable because many people do indeed feign inteligence that way. Example: I call you an Hectopascal without actually knowing what the hell that is. But you don't know either. Since you can't prove that my usage of it is wrong, it overall just makes me sound smarter than I am.

Rather biased, admittedly, but I drop said bias after a while.

.....On the other hand, no one is writting any thesis here, so being more informal is perfectly fine.