Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20150530163143/@comment-24993958-20150607171618

Streamlining. In my attempt to put in a reference to every major aspect of his inspiration I ended up with very little room for creativity and ended up taking a whole lot of creative freedom with the setting  in order to make them work. If I can take out some of the shit that don’t majorly contribute to his character (like say making him part of a council I don’t even know exists) I should have more room to get creative and make him more…RWBY-ish by having the inspiration be more on the background rather than the foreground (like how Ruby is both Little Red and the Hunter mixed together and resulting into a trigger happy teenager out to murder monsters)…that’s kind of what bugs me about Cypress…I feel like I made him a little too similar to Hades.