Which of the other starter choices do you want to see interludes from most?

  • Dishonored

    Votes: 3 7.0%
  • Legend Of Zelda

    Votes: 9 20.9%
  • Shadow Of Mordor

    Votes: 2 4.7%
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

    Votes: 4 9.3%
  • Preacher

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

    Votes: 8 18.6%
  • Fist Of The North Star

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Kill Six Billion Demons

    Votes: 12 27.9%
  • The Zombie Knight

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mob Psycho 100

    Votes: 2 4.7%
  • Author's Choice

    Votes: 3 7.0%

  • Total voters
    43
  • Poll closed .
... I...

You know what, if you don't know, you don't know.
Just tell him: Jaune dropped the Transistor on Saff's face right after he deleted the maze.

Speaking of, how's everyone enjoying enjoying your teammates so far? Anyone your favourite, or are you all voting for Lumen just because you really hate Saff?
Can't speak for anyone else, I just want to ride a hardlight killbot. But I'm a sucker for story stuff, so fine, switching my vote.
 
Just tell him: Jaune dropped the Transistor on Saff's face right after he deleted the maze.
Multiple smacks to the face are acceptable.

Personally, I was thinking of something completely different, but if you don't know, I don't think anyone does.

Wait, they're actually going to be our teammates? Aww man. I was hoping for more of the canon people. I am not a fan of too many OC's having too important roles.
No, nonono- teammates as in your current teammates.

I know I bitch and moan about writing canon characters a lot but I'm not going that far.

At worst, they replace the few characters who haven't actually had any characterisation at all in canon.
 
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Wait, they're actually going to be our teammates? Aww man. I was hoping for more of the canon people. I am not a fan of too many OC's having too important roles.
Haha, he means the temp team formed for the graduation exam. I'm like 90% sure the Signal OCs that get into Beacon will be recurring characters if we choose, but all of the interludes so far have been the RWBY cast, the main quest shouldn't be different.

Personally I was thinking of something completely different, but if you don't know, I don't think anybody does.
*Gendo pose*
 
Haha, he means the temp team formed for the graduation exam. I'm like 90% sure the Signal OCs that get into Beacon will be recurring characters if we choose, but all of the interludes so far have been the RWBY cast, the main quest shouldn't be different.
Everything the Signal OCs do will be purely... loyalty mission material, essentially. The only one that'll have any kind of effect on anybody but themselves and you is Ada, and the idea of letting her fall by the wayside is... it kinda breaks my heart, to be honest.

Don't go breaking my heart.

Let me break yours for a change.

Is anybody else bored of team RWBY/_NPR and wants to change things up with these OCs or is it just me?
You definitely can, if you brush your teeth and pray to the dice gods before bed every night.
 
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You definitely can, if you brush your teeth and pray to the dice gods before bed every night.
Will sacrificing peoplesheep to the Dice Gods every day do instead :p?

But yeah, I honestly prefer having these guys on our Beacon team, instead of NPRRWBY. Why do you people want the canon people on our team anyway?
 
Is anybody else bored of team RWBY/_NPR and wants to change things up with these OCs or is it just me?
Mm. One reason that I'm against that is that the student teams all form from thematic sets. RWBY is fairytales, JNPR is genderbent crossdressing heroes, SSSN is literature, etc.

Transistor!Jaune breaks with Jeanne D'Arc, but CATA doesn't quite fit either--Jaune and Ada come from indie videogames, while Lumen's fantasy book themed and Cream... actually, I haven't picked up on her character inspiration, unless she's based on Bambi. @Prok?

Swear to god if you bring up brouzof...
 
Mm. One reason that I'm against that is that the student teams all form from thematic sets. RWBY is fairytales, JNPR is genderbent crossdressing heroes, SSSN is literature, etc.

Transistor!Jaune breaks with Jeanne D'Arc, but CATA doesn't quite fit either--Jaune and Ada come from indie videogames, while Lumen's fantasy book themed and Cream... actually, I haven't picked up on her character inspiration, unless she's based on Bambi. @Prok?
Ah.

So you're one of those that like the thematic sets to that point.

...

Everyone's entitled to their own opinions I guess.

You know that's pretty unlikely to happen here if @Prok actually uses dice for teams, you know?
 
Why do you people want the canon people on our team anyway?
Three reasons really:

A) I am not a big fan of OC's filling up roles that had already been taken. OC's are fine so long as they are for positions that we know nothing about who actually does, such as other reporters besides Lisa Lavender or who exactly is on the Vale Council.

B) You can already get a different story simply by changing around who partners who with the canon characters to get different interactions of different character traits. Adding in further OC's is entirely unnecessary. I, for one, think partnering up with Weiss or Ren would be a really interesting combination for this Jaune's personality.

C) Even having the exact same teams would lead to a different outcome due to Jaune's different power level and completely different personality. He will attract attention, if not due to his power then due to questers' inability to lay low in quests not specifically about laying low :p
 
Three reasons really:

A) I am not a big fan of OC's filling up roles that had already been taken. OC's are fine so long as they are for positions that we know nothing about who actually does, such as other reporters besides Lisa Lavender or who exactly is on the Vale Council.

B) You can already get a different story simply by changing around who partners who with the canon characters to get different interactions of different character traits. Adding in further OC's is entirely unnecessary. I, for one, think partnering up with Weiss or Ren would be a really interesting combination for this Jaune's personality.

C) Even having the exact same teams would lead to a different outcome due to Jaune's different power level and completely different personality. He will attract attention, if not due to his power then due to questers' inability to lay low in quests not specifically about laying low :p
Well, I don't really agree with all the points, but I suppose that's what opinions are about.

I, for one, find the canon characters to be bland*, which is why I prefer fleshed out OCs. They're not constrained by complying to what was shown in canon, so the well-written ones tend to be more interesting.


*Seriously, name one good RWBY story/quest that doesn't add original background to the canon characters. RWBY has some strong points, but fleshed out protagonists is not one of those.
 
Creme is my favorite teammate because she seems to be an adorable ball of pure, unfiltered repressed anger.
 
Will sacrificing peoplesheep to the Dice Gods every day do instead :p?

But yeah, I honestly prefer having these guys on our Beacon team, instead of NPRRWBY. Why do you people want the canon people on our team anyway?
Status quo, I suppose. I mean I'd be happy with just relegating them to background characters that you can hang out with every now and then, but if you want one or two on your team, that's fine too.

I mean, really, it's a matter of the dice who ends up going to Beacon and who ends up going elsewhere, so really it's a moot point anyway.

Transistor!Jaune breaks with Jeanne D'Arc, but CATA doesn't quite fit either--Jaune and Ada come from indie videogames, while Lumen's fantasy book themed and Cream... actually, I haven't picked up on her character inspiration, unless she's based on Bambi. @Prok?
Er... offhand, I... genuinely don't know. I think she might be the most original original character I've made.

I see your point about thematic sets, but while that works for a series dictated by writers trying to tell a story, for a quest that does rely quite a lot on random chance? Nah. It works in canon because it's meant to work in canon, but this is not canon and treating it as such is...

Well, not a good idea, at best.

At the absolute worst, three-quarters of CRDL and half of CVFY are completely uncharacterised. Or I could bring in a fourth and create a completely new team. There's absolutely no reason that replacing any of JNPR or RWBY are the only options, and as I said, as much as I bitch and moan about it if I wanted a pure OC RWBY quest I wouldn't have even set it in Vale to begin with. No, canon can't take a double tap to the chest just yet.

You know what, fuck it, it's not like I need it up there anyway- once the Signal fight ends, I PROMISE I'M NOT HOLDING OUT FOR UPDATE 17 FOR THEMATIC REASONS IT JUST SEEMS TO BE WORKING OUT THAT WAY, I'll set up another poll on the matter, because then I'll have rolled dice to see who's going to Beacon anyway.

... But, none of this has actually answered my initial question. How are people enjoying the CAT of team CATA?

Creme is my favorite teammate because she seems to be an adorable ball of pure, unfiltered repressed anger.
WELL ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE

COME ON KEEP EM COMIN PAPA NEEDS FEEDBACK LIKE HE'S A SMASHING PUMPKINS ALBUM
 
half of CVFY are completely uncharacterised.

I mean we have names for all of CFVY, but Yatsu and Fox desperately need more screen time and actual... lines, yeah.

Also Velvet, because Velvet is best girl. Penny used to be best girl, but now that she's 1/4 the girl she used to be the title defaults to the runner up.

For clarity if anyone's following my quest, where I have been blatantly showering Pyrrha with my affection in my options apparently despite having perfectly logical reasons for mentioning her specifically there, Pyrrha claimed Best Girl temporarily as well but then she got Bon Jovi'd.
 
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*Seriously, name one good RWBY story/quest that doesn't add original background to the canon characters. RWBY has some strong points, but fleshed out protagonists is not one of those.
While true, a lot of people (myself included) react poorly to ALL OCs because repeated exposure to poorly written fanfiction characters does not, in fact, grant immunity.

RWBY has very specific rules regarding character creation (color name and real world reference). Prok follows them and keeps the focus on Jaune even when Jaune's interacting with them, so once we get past the initial kneejerk reaction, we can accept them as belonging to the setting.

...But that little bubble of hate is still in the back of our mindssssssss...

I see your point about thematic sets, but while that works for a series dictated by writers trying to tell a story, for a quest that does rely quite a lot on random chance? Nah. It works in canon because it's meant to work in canon, but this is not canon and treating it as such is...
Eh, not my point. If this were "Jaune Arc Quest" and you randomly shuffled the teams it'd probably be okay. If you threw him into a team with a bunch of OCs there'd be issues, unless Jaune's team included Oliver Pole (Polly Oliver), Mark Read (Mary Read) and Bonnie Prance (Bonnie Prince Charlie). And again, there's nervousness about OCs.

Transistor!Jaune defies categorization because he's got TWO inspirations now, and the rest of the canon cast isn't picking up a second to match him. The safe move is to put him with JNPR and use the OCs as minor characters, like you said.

WELL ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE

COME ON KEEP EM COMIN PAPA NEEDS FEEDBACK LIKE HE'S A SMASHING PUMPKINS ALBUM
I pointed a friend of mine at this quest and he adores Cream in particular and CATA in general. Thinks she's absolutely precious and while he doesn't quite get Lumen, does like the interplay of personalities.

I'll add that Ada needs a lot more screen time because fear of the dark is her only unique character trait, snapping and suddenly screaming is something everyone on the team does.

Pyrrha claimed Best Girl temporarily as well but then she got Bon Jovi'd.
I understand all the words in this sentence but the sentence not so much. Did she get Cinder'd?
 
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I'm... not sure how that's relevant. Or what you're even trying to say.
Jaune has two separate character themes and doesn't fit the pattern for his original team anymore. The safe option that will rustle the fewest feathers is to form JNPR anyway and have the current slate of OCs involved as side characters.

Does that mean I think the quest will go, or should go in that direction? Nah. But it's the path that'll cause the fewest problems.
 
But it's the path that'll cause the fewest problems.
Do you mean actual problems or just that the Arkos shippers are less likely to have a salty outcome? Also, if Pyrrha's whole reason for liking Jaune is that he didn't know who she was then she could be very disappointed here, as Transistor!Jaune could probably reverse image search her in his head as soon as she hints she's somebody big.
 
Do you mean actual problems or just that the Arkos shippers are less likely to have a salty outcome? Also, if Pyrrha's whole reason for liking Jaune is that he didn't know who she was then she could be very disappointed here, as Transistor!Jaune could probably reverse image search her in his head as soon as she hints she's somebody big.
Actual problems. We already know this isn't a romance quest.

Hell, I even ship Arkos and the interactions I'm most looking forward to are with Weiss--Jaune's skills are a near perfect technological reflection of hers. Spells and summoning=Functions and The Process.
 
Coming close to the giant rainbow golem composed of the emotional spectrum seems like a bad idea. Remember that using his semblence unbalances him. Right now? The amounts of various cololours are likely balanced, but the intesity...
 
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