User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/AUs plausible in RWBY/@comment-11188061-20140827150936/@comment-11188061-20140828004815

... O... kay, so you're basically talking about a RWBY remake but with cars instead. Riiiiiiight (flips papers). Sorry if I'm not seeing exactly where the 'unique' part is. I've already seen more than enough rewrites of exact episodes of RWBY, some with slight variance, with xT-Zealot in general being the best out of the bunch. And even that can be boring, because it's a reading of what that has already happened in canon.

And if you're saying that, 'No! I'm referring to using an sticking canon materials only, not following its story 100% as well! ' then I don't get your other comments. For one, if this is the case then it's impossible to avoid 'fanmade angst', because any 'angst' created by someone other than the creators themselves count as one unless you're writing the exact same that happened in canon. Which, would turn out to be the above. Similarly, it's impossible to avoid personal musings; what kind of story does not have any moments of self-reflection? No shippings and no OCs is fine and all even, but then how are you going to re-enact moments where nameless characters put in a dialogue or two? "Eeeyeap!" "Fooooooood fiiiiiiight!" are one of those examples. How about 'Deery'? Are you going to substitute, 'someone in the crowd' every time a nameless says something, when it's easier to just tag them with a name sometimes, but it will make them technically 'OCs'?

To put it into perspective, your idea is, to put it bluntly, exactly the same as those average fanfiction on FF and Tumblr, except that this AU of yours hasn't even been put on paper yet, or whatever format you choose to present it. Until you actually write it out - and not just present the idea, because in that case I'm going to open a whole new can of worms talking about sheer quality and creativity - I do not believe it's right to even comment on how your idea is more 'unique' than the rest in FF.Net, because it's simply not. The concept is still racing, and between similar themes there naturally will be some variance of ideas between each person. And yours is simply to substitute Variable A into B and keep the formula exactly the same.

Unique? Unfortunately, I think not at all.