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Shoots Lucas with a water gun

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

Thankfully, it's died down nowadays; It's common to see someone mention Monty's name with at least some respect and lament of his death, but it's rare to see someone overreact over it. Then again, time heals wounds, so most people likely just moved on. "died down"... I'm so sorry :(

ANYWAY. You know that literally every youtube video featuring Monty has at least several "RIP Monty" comments. Even if he's in it for just a frame...

Anyway, yeah, I feel like there are several reasons...

He was sort of one of a kind...

-You heard stories about how he worked so hard he didn't sleep, how they had to drag him away from work to eat. How he was known to just close his eyes in front of his computer and he "shut down" like a robot and power back on in the morning and continue working. You could marvel at how dedicated he was to his craft. Even if you didn't care about what he was doing you couldn't help but respect his drive. (And that happened. After he died he got farewell speeches from some people who even hated RWBY)

-And he was truly unique in his area. 3D over the top anime fights inspired by martial arts films combined with his history as a dancer? What even? A guy who specialized in fights? You couldn't really find anything similar, and if you did you had to search for it and it usually wasn't that good. (btw, If someone wants to send me more cool fights please do xD) Or you had to looks for specific fights in animes, or cutscenes in games. But very rarely you had true choreography. most shows are 2D and coreography in 2d animation is difficult and time consuming... ...uh.. I should do more research before I talk about how Monty was such an amazing animator because I'm pretty much just mindlessly fangirling here >.>

-And the death itself was so shocking. For a guy who made it his life goal to make awesome projects based on the Rule of Cool... to die of an allergic reaction... of a mistake... It was just ...shocking... and at 33... (...and less than a year after marrying Sheena...) you know how young that is... That's less than half of the average life expectancy... Just imagine... what kinds of things he would do...

-RT and it's fanbase were really something. Like, the crew going on panels, Q&As, him posting pictures and concept art on his Deviantart and Facebook. He was just such a nice approachable guy. And all the stories he told, or were told about him on podcasts, you felt like you knew him. It wasn't like a celebrity dying, it was like somebody you knew, somebody you talked to, somebody you hugged on a convention. Like a friend.