Hello again, #RWBY and #RWBYOC fans! While fundraising may be canceled, I'm intent on bringing this project to life any way I can- whether by saving up some money to self-fund, or having the help of anyone so extraordinarily generous as to volunteer their services for any position- I can't do voice acting or art/animation myself, and I appreciate any willing and able participants in bringing this awesome project to fruition! In fact, I'm so determined to make this a reality, that I'm going to give everyone the full screenplays of BOTH episodes, so if anyone wants to take my work and run with it (with or without credit), they can fire away! For anyone with the talent and generosity to volunteer their services in collaboration, this will also help you know exactly what's being made! Something important to note is, partway through the Ghost Stories script, I realized that the nature of the Kickstarter campaign meant I didn't know the final form the project would take, so for the latter half of the script I exclusively wrote dialogue and was going to wait until the fundraising ended to know whether to continue the screenplay or start writing prose or comic script instead. Go ahead and ask me about any choreography and action after that point in the script, I have it all planned out but withheld from writing it all to conserve effort in case we didn't hit the higher goals! Here's the screenplay for "LCA Has Landed," the first episode of "RWBY: The Phoenix Diaries," for your reference or your use: And here's the screenplay for "Ghost Stories," the first episode of "STRQ: A RWBY Story," for your reference or your use: If you're interested in volunteering or want to quote me a rate I can try to save up for, DM me or leave a comment! If you're interested in taking the script for yourself and making something of it, here's your license to take my ideas and characters and to try to do them better!

@KeithMontalbo I know we've had our differences, and they've caused me a lot more problems than they've caused you, but I'd like to bury the hatchet while doing something to give back to the RWBY Fandom and make up for past mistakes. What do you say about a RWBY OC tournament where the winner gets a commission from you, paid for by me? You could also be a second judge for fairness' sake, and of course neither of us would be allowed to compete in the event. I don't make very much, and my mom takes about 80% of what I do make, but I'm willing to save up for a while to get a lucky winner that prize and settle our accounts.

@KeithMontalbo I still can't give up the old Metal Fight ones, got Sol Blaze and Galaxy Pegasus last Christmas

Calling all #RWBY fans with a #RWBYOC or two: I'm continuing a series of Atlas-style Combat Reports on various original characters, including a full breakdown of tactics and abilities as well as a list of potential countermeasures! I'll be starting with my own four OCs, Team LCA and Phoenix, but comment with your own OCs and I'll write something in the same style to cover them, too! Continuing with my own characters, here's Conailte Laoch! FILENAME: BOUNCER Full Name: Laoch, Conailte Hayden Age: 22 - DOB: January 28 HT: 6’4” - WT: 253 lbs. - Sex: M Hair/Eye: Red/Blue - Tone: Pale Species: Human - No Trait Weapon Name/s: Two-Step Goodbye Semblance Name: Bounciness Full Combat Report: Conailte’s semblance is extremely powerful, and he takes full advantage of this. With the ability to exponentially increase his speed with repeated impacts along any surface, Conailte quickly matches and surpasses even most speedsters in mobility, and can start and stop on a dime. This makes him an extremely difficult target to keep track of and hit, but his semblance goes even further when and if he actually is hit by an attack: the bounciness that grants his immense speed also causes virtually all kinetic impact to do no harm to him, and also reflect off him at even higher speed than before, with any attack potentially backfiring with substantially increased damage to the attacker with no reward. While his high speed can also obviously improve his attack power, combining with his great mass to hit with extreme force, it does so in less obvious ways as well: after Two-Step Goodbye shoots its twin plasmatic blades as a projectile, which is already fast with good stopping power, the recoil sends the weapon into his arm, where it bounces against his semblance to vibrate at a faster and faster rate until Conailte releases the mechanism keeping the weapon attached to his forearm. Once he does so, the weapon bounces off towards his target as an extremely high-speed projectile capable of obliterating even large Grimm in one shot, with the handle being durable enough to survive the impact before Conailte utilizes Gravity Dust to recall the weapon to his forearm and repeat the process. Because of the weapon’s immense weight and the attachment mechanism, disarmament is virtually impossible until the weapon is released, and after that any attempt to disarm must contend with the Gravity Dust recall system, generally meaning that Conailte is never without his weapon for long if it all. Even without launching the weapon, its pair of plasmatic Dust blades combined with his immense strength makes Conailte a great offensive threat on top of his durability and speed. Countermeasures: Thermal damage, particularly fire, lightning, lasers, plasma, etc., has proven to be unmitigated by his semblance, making these reliable means to deal meaningful Aura damage at all times. Outright nullification of his semblance results in the loss of most of his combat effectiveness, dramatically reducing his mobility, attack potency, and resilience all at once, although he is still a particularly strong and surprisingly agile individual without it and must not be underestimated. If semblance nullification and thermal damage are not available, extreme mobility and/or unpredictable cleverness is necessary to escape him, and no other viable option remains: kinetic damage is strictly counterproductive.

Reducing it to "because [I] didn't have a girlfriend" is disingenuous, but I suppose I didn't dwell on the subject too long so perhaps I ought to explain my situation at that point in my life. I'll go into greater detail here, not to excuse my actions, but to explain them. I started using dating apps shortly after I turned 18 in 2019- having done exclusively online school from 5th grade through 12th, I'd never had the opportunity to find romance or develop adjacent bonds in my teenage years, but being someone who placed high priority in starting a large family like the one I grew up in as the oldest of six kids, I was determined to find someone as soon as possible. Between three separate towns, I swiped Like on roughly 60-70% of profiles that crossed my feed, even those considerably older than me (sometimes by as much as nine years), those who already had children, and those over 300 miles away, all in a desperate effort to find a match. Despite this liberal pool of possibilities chosen with reckless abandon, by the start of 2024 and my 23rd birthday, I hadn't gotten a *single* match, and early in 2024 I made the mistake of starting to count how many profiles in a row I was swiping Like on without a match; I had to stop counting at around 700 to not continue to make myself depressed. My coworkers told me in no uncertain terms they would have killed themselves in my position, and while I had the strength to only rarely consider that option, I lacked the strength not to become bitter and lash out: my self-loathing for my continuing failure to achieve my greatest life goal started to be distributed among a broader target, partially as a defense mechanism. I said things that were reprehensible and that I don't stand by anymore, and I once again apologize for those remarks.

@M_rkZh_ng Is it intentional that Odyssey Club abbreviates to OC? I literally just realized that

Calling all #RWBY fans with a #RWBYOC or two: I'm starting a series of Atlas-style Combat Reports on various original characters, including a full breakdown of tactics and abilities as well as a list of potential countermeasures! I'll be starting with my own four OCs, Team LCA and Phoenix, but comment with your own OCs and I'll write something in the same style to cover them, too! Starting with my own characters, here's Laura Thrush! FILENAME: EAGLE EYE Full Name: Thrush, Laura Madison Age: 22 - DOB: July 10 HT: 4'10” - WT: 78 lbs. - Sex: F Hair/Eye: Blonde/Green - Tone: Ivory Species: Faunus - Gyrfalcon Wings Trait Weapon Name/s: Birdsong Semblance Name: Nothing Withheld Full Combat Report: Laura's primary combat tactic involves taking to the sky with her wings, and flying at high speed while controlling the sixteen bracelets collectively referred to as Birdsong. Each bracelet is capable of outputting extreme damage via powerful soundwave generation, with just two being able to crush a Paladin when firing towards each other with the Paladin in between, and the devices are capable of flying at even greater speed than Laura herself to rapidly reposition and strike different targets or different angles. Because of her aversion to killing or maiming, she rarely operates the bracelets at full or even half power against human or Faunus opponents, and she will rarely have more than four active at once to keep the rest safe with her Aura cloak. She controls Birdsong with a pair of devices which appear as large pink pearl earrings, and the bracelets themselves utilize Gravity and Wind Dust to fly and create walls of sonic force. Her semblance, Nothing Withheld, is activated by bringing a bracelet to each of her eyes, and grants her remote viewing capabilities that also allow her to see invisible objects, people, or phenomena such as magnetic fields, rendering ambush tactics almost if not completely inviable, and entirely mitigating the effectiveness of invisibility cloak technology, smokescreens, or any other tactics involving hiding a person, object, or phenomena including illusion semblances, which have no effect on her semblance. While she can technically use Nothing Withheld in a direct fight and has trained to operate in “third-person,” it is broadly more useful before a fight begins or after an opponent has fled, and requires two bracelets for the duration of its use. Combatants with no flight or ranged attacks will face extreme difficulty in damaging her, as well as with avoiding or counteracting her weapons. Any combatants who rely too heavily on traps, hiding, stealth, illusions, or ambushing will generally be frustrated by her semblance, and will likely need to make adaptations to their strategy.  Countermeasures: Neutralize Birdsong by any means necessary; destroying or disabling the bracelets or their control technology removes Laura’s primary means of attack and reduces her damage potential to near-zero. Lack of Aura protection on airborne bracelets leaves them especially vulnerable to damage, but Dust Nullification or an EMP effect are also highly effective at removing bracelets from play. Flight can help to mitigate hers or her bracelets’ mobility advantage, though many forms of flight will be far slower than what Laura or Birdsong is capable of. Her semblance is not presently known to be countered by any means besides outright nullification or complete removal of her bracelets.

@Manhattva At country, I figured Denmark was too obvious so I went with Djibouti instead

@WardRadioShow Three options to me: Uchtdorf, Oaks, Bednar.

7 My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; 8 And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes. 9 Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands. 10 Thou art not yet as Job; thy friends do not contend against thee, neither charge thee with transgression, as they did Job. 11 And they who do charge thee with transgression, their hope shall be blasted, and their prospects shall melt away as the hoar frost melteth before the burning rays of the rising sun; 12 And also that God hath set his hand and seal to change the times and seasons, and to blind their minds, that they may not understand his marvelous workings; that he may prove them also and take them in their own craftiness; 13 Also because their hearts are corrupted, and the things which they are willing to bring upon others, and love to have others suffer, may come upon themselves to the very uttermost; 14 That they may be disappointed also, and their hopes may be cut off; Doctrine and Covenants 121:7-14

How did Shaboozey not win a *single* #GrammyAwards award that Tipsy was nominated for, that sucker was #1 for *nineteen weeks*

@TShraid The most charitable explanation is that they were trying to be subversive and have the heroes lose a bunch in the finale, but Yang losing is already big enough that Weiss could have taken the W here and it would have been fine. At least she still has more solo wins than Blake!

@Mjustine132_ She's gonna juggle not four, Not five, Not six, seven, eight or even *nine* balls, But *three* balls!

My awesome little sister designed and drew Phoenix Emiliana from #RWBY: The Phoenix Diaries, but the rest of my #RWBYOC designs are stuck as collages so far- I can barely manage stick figures myself! Might not be very good, but I hope they get across the idea of their designs!

@MagnumLava I'm sorry? I can't quite understand what you said, but I can tell you the last character (Anton Rosso) is the only villain character: the rest are all heroes, and very good ones at that!

@MagnumLava Thanks! You have a favorite?

@Crimson_King_9 @Hiru3152 I don't feel like a Watsonian explanation is necessary or desirable there, the Doylist explanation of "well this was a rough draft of their look and we made them look better later" is just more satisfying, at least to me

@GrecoGum Wait what My mom used to work for them

@jaYTgameNews Weiss and Yang were ride-or-die from like late V1 all the way through V5, in V6 and beyond they dialed it way back but Weiss made almost as many puns as Yang and was *instantly* ready to throw down with Blake for not immediately believing Yang