Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20170201003940/@comment-24534644-20170207080627

I mean, my OCs follow RWBY too. It's the exact same environment with the same places and the same rules to follow. It's just different people. I find that frees me to do pretty much whatever I want with the story, and tell it how I wish. I don't need to have Vale get attacked by Grimm (or have the Grimm invasion contained in approximately 3 minutes), and I don't need to have the Grand Vytal Festival get destroyed by a sudden joint attack from Grimm and White Fang. I don't need to have Atlas closing its borders, I don't need to have to worry about very specific and powerful group of villains targeting Maidens or whatever other magical people exist in Remnant, and most of all, I don't have to worry about my own characters not being able to go certain places or do certain things because it would interfere with the Canon characters. I can do my own thing, tell my own story, with all my own characters, taking place in the same world as the show but with none of the Canon characters and events. And that's better for me than just making yet another "follow this team that isn't RWBY as they do things in the same world as RWBY and experience/indirectly influence events within RWBY" fics.