User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/WOR: Vytal Festival Reviews/@comment-26397825-20151011021526/@comment-25555436-20151011022615

I doubt RT knew Spirit did it. It could well be like what happened with Ren. Apparently, someone had already made an almost-identical copy of him long before he even appeared, as a RWBY OC.

Of course, Spirit could ask that and hope to get a straight answer from RT's Q&A.