Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25247233-20160513080632/@comment-26397825-20160513105134

I am against this petition as a whole, wholely because RWBY never belonged to 'just Monty' in the first place. The base idea, of four girls who go to a school for monsters and save the world, belong to him. A lot of the character designs belong to him. But the writing has always belonged to Kerry and Miles.

It has always belonged to the three of them as a whole. When Monty passed, he didn't just 'will it' to Rooster Teeth, and Kerry and Miles didn't just decide to 'adopt' Monty's show. They were already part owners of it as they were the creative team behind the actual episode dialogues themselves, and the storyboarding. Monty spitballed the overarcing plotline at them, but they came up with the in between stuff. It belonged to Kerry and Miles just as much as it belonged to Monty before he passed, it's just referred to as Monty's baby because his fight scenes were the main selling point for the first two volumes.

This petition is just silly, in my opinion. And, I doubt Shane would really want this to happen anyway. Doesn't he say in the letter to not stop watching RWBY? To still support RWBY as it goes along? You're not exactly supporting RWBY if you demand the rights go to Shane, which means the writers - who have written for it since day 1 - wouldn't be able to work on it as Rooster Teeth and Shane are not currently on the best of terms.

Demanding that they give the rights to Shane wouldn't be giving RWBY to him. It'd be giving him a piece of paper titled RWBY, but the actual content would become a totally different thing, and would no longer be the RWBY we know and love and the RWBY Monty created alongside Kerry and Miles.