Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3257939-20150601205621/@comment-209421-20150901145801

Bingo! Y'know, if we had entire character arcs dedicated to expanding on other teams, then maybe there wouldn't be quite so much conflict with these one-dimensional characters.

As a fanfiction writer, I find myself fleshing out these characters, and I don't like that. Somebody wants a Yang-centric fanfic? Easy, there's a lot of different ways I can explore her personality. Maybe smudge some of her threadbare backstory, but I'd have to do that with anybody. This is the same for the rest of team RWBY.

Somebody wants a fanfic with, say, Pyrrha in a major role? Ok, that's gonna be a challenge. But again, there's a bit to work with, if very blurry. This is the same with Jaune, and to some extents the professors.

But if somebody wanted, say, a fanfic focusing on Neptune, for example? Forget it. I can't smudge that guy. All he has is his flirty ways and his lack of self-confidence aside from that. I might as well be writing original fiction.