Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.160.120.109-20140627184048/@comment-4010415-20140627190159

RWBY isn't the only thing to "rip off" Sun Wukong, to be honest. Tons of works reference and have characters who are Sun Wukong. Originally, he's from the ancient Chinese story Journey to the West. RWBY has a Sun Wukong, League of Legends has a Sun Wukong, Son Goku from Dragonball is Sun Wukong (The Japanese call him Son Goku, after all), Zidane from Final Fantasy 9 might be based on Sun Wukong, etc and so forth.

I'll give you the scythe rifle thing, but Ruby doesn't look much like Margaret Moonlight.

And it's pretty much impossible to get a 100% original idea anymore.

Aura and similar concepts are always going to be unoriginal because people have believed in aura and similar concepts for centuries. It doesn't matter what you call it: Aura, chi, ki, chakra, etc. It's all based on something that people actually believe in, the concept of your body producing an energy that you can learn to control as some kind of supernatural power to fight and defend with.