Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-68.194.169.97-20170317010428/@comment-26397825-20170319055840

Retro Ace wrote:

Would Monty if he was still alive scrap it or bring her back? Well he's gone, we can never know that for sure,maybe he would have, maybe not, or maybe not kill her off until a few more volumes, and Miles and Kelly are just trying to continue his work the best they can, its not like they can peform a Sance and contact Monty from beyond the grave to get his okay on everything. I just want to point out something that to me says a resounding "No, Monty would not scrap her death or bring her back": his wife cosplayed the scene between Cinder and Pyrrha around the time of volume one. Pyrrha was always slated to die, Monty knew this, and his wife cosplayed the scene and was sitting on those photos for 3 goddamn years.

It was always going to happen, whether Monty died or not, because it's been the plan from the get go. The details surrounding how it happened changed (originally Jaune was going to cause her death somehow) but the basic premise (Pyrrha dies here) was always there.

And that's what Miles and Kerry are following. All three of them sat down and worked out the basic premise of the entire storyline; Monty, Miles and Kerry put in equal amounts to plot out the overarching story, who dies where, what happens, etc. Then Miles and Kerry sat down and started writing the episode to episode stuff while Monty focused on what he was best at, animation.

Miles and Kerry shouldn't have to perform a seance to get Monty's okay on everything, because 2/3 of RWBY belongs to them. Yes, Monty came up with the basic idea of four girls named for colours and fighting monsters. That's not the show RWBY, however, thats a basic idea. RWBY the show belonged to all three equally. Miles and Kerry's words and ideas are just as true to the show as Monty's were, because they created as much of the show as Monty did. It was theirs, not one persons but all three.

I really wish people would stop claiming Miles and Kerry are screwing Monty's vision up, or 'trying their best to stay true to his vision' when it belonged to all three equally, not just Monty.