Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27092449-20151018200124/@comment-26018514-20151104190855

DeletedContent wrote:

Aye, but the series also can change again since Monty's death. Due to the popularity of the show, they may get a budget increase. Budget increases mean that they may possibly get better animation, which they may show off in a large specticle. Other staff and voice actors may leave, meaning that they will either A) have to kill off that character, or B) find a new voice actor who can either mimic the characters voice relatively well, or make up some sort of explanation why there would be a voice shift (such as an illness like strep throat, or something else along those lines). Monty's departure didn't change much of Ren's character, or at least not very notably, since Ren never talked much in the show to begin with. However, if a character like Jaune or Yang had a voice change, it'd be much more noticable, due to the fact that their characters talk much more often. If each volume is released around 8-10 months apart, and there are 10 planned volumes, than we can assume that the show is planned to go on for... maybe 8 years? A lot of things can change in 8 years. I'm not saying anything rediculously major will differ, some things noticably can, and probably will.

Monty is dead, considering how much he overworked himself and how much he contributed at likely little to no cost(due to this being his metaphorical baby), they would need a hell of a lot of extra budget to make that up... and main/secondary/featured Character death is a huge event... you just don't do that on a whim, especially when said character is a co-writers baby...

This entire conversation is about Jaune Dying in the endgame of the series... when RWBY(you know... those four characters Monty invested enough thought in to create an entire series based around them) should be getting top billing... which has yet to happen much because they have not been developed enough. That is a major event that would require pre-planning... and that Jaune be cared about enough to care. At this point his character honestly is only cared about in that we have no idea what he is supposed to do... and if he doesn't do something before death his character will just be a huge dead end and waste of space for the series.