Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-226878-20141031185748/@comment-10390252-20141031213010

I think that the division between 'major' and 'minor' characters id dififcult and sometimes abitrary anyway. To me, there are a lot more grades of importance.

My thinking on this heirarchy is:

Primary Characters - RWBY & JNPR; Cinder's group and Roman;

Supporting Characters - The teachers; Junior; Sun and Neptune; Penny and Cardin (possibly); Neo;

Bit Part Characters - The Shopkeeper; the rest of SSSN and CRDL, CFVY; The Lieutenant; Perry;

Speaking Extras - Various Atlesian soldiers, WF grunts, henchmen and other mooks;

Non-speaking Extras - Faces or silhouettes in the crowd.

Now, the problem we have is that it isn't always automatically clear where a character may go. We may go several episodes before their full importance becomes overtly clear. Monty likes to tease and draw out introductions.

However, I think that you can make reasonable judgements as to how important a character will be, irrespective of their current prominance, by how they are used. What context do we see them? Who are they with and what tdo they do?