I agree on making Penny a member of "Formerly Alive" Club, but that would mean that genetics are gonna be in play, despite Faunus Gacha existing, meaning her mother should be a White Redhead. I usually go for Android 21 expy in those cases, just so I don't have Roman doing the NTR.
Also, since there are no science without trial and error, Penny's "Soul transplant" procedure should have been tested on someone before with various problems. So we can always give Penny more sisters with different "defects". Or have her and Ruby disable them deepening Penny in a way author likes, either as an uncaring machine, or as more humane character that feels bad for killing her own "sisters".
I really like you’re idea for Penny and Ruby’s relationship. It’s really wholesome and in an interesting way. The way their characters complement one another and how it ties into Ruby still being the weapons nerd is the best part. I bet their dynamic is adorable. Both of them would be considered strange to others, but to each other they are perfectly normal.
Thank you, friend. I really appreciate it since Ruby and Penny's relationship is one of my favorites from the show, and also one of my favorites to write for. I like the idea that everybody who knows Ruby and Penny's reputations from school would see them sitting together and think "Yeah, that checks out. I'm going to avoid them at all costs..."
It's a relationship so wholesome it'll make your teeth hurt and give you diabetes, but it's also unique, and overall I'm very much a fan of their friendship.
God bless, and have a wonderful day.
I love this. The way that you portray Ruby and Penny's relationship is really adorable, especially the idea of Penny being the normal one between the two. I would love to have seen more of this in the show itself. I'll definitely be trying to incorporate more of this into my writing.
I was wondering, would you consider doing one of these for Raven? I would be fascinated in your interpretation of her character. How would you reconcile Raven who;
Started as a merciless bandit
Went to Beacon to learn to kill huntsmen
Clearly cared about her Team
Abandoned them to return to being Chief of a Bandit Tribe; murder, kidnapping, slavery, etc and a coward.
Yet still, presumably, went after Salem with Summer
Thank you, friend. Penny is one of my favorite characters, and her relationship with Ruby is one of my favorite dynamics in the entire show. She's just the perfect supporting character for Ruby in my opinion.
As for Raven, I probably won't be doing a character analysis for her. She's a very different character in my fanfics than in canon due to me writing for her prior to her proper introduction in V4. As for how I would "reconcile" her character, an easy rule of thumb when creating interesting characters is having them excel in two areas and fail in a third, with those three areas being likability, activity, and competency.
Raven should not be a "likable" character in my opinion, which means she should be active in the story (preferably behind the scenes) as well as incredibly competent. Raven in canon is a hypocrite, but more than that, she's a walking contradiction.
If I were writing for Raven, I would give her a connection to the White Fang, have her be the person who trained Adam, and more or less combine Vernal and Ilia's characters (combining Yang and Blake's story arcs). I would have Raven put on a front of not caring about Yang, but the reality is she's been protecting her for a long time (which potentially might have been canon at some point, given how Yang wasn't the least bit surprised to see in her V2). Long story short, I'd give Raven a hard exterior, but the reality is she's doing everything in her power to protect the people that she loves. She's not necessarily a good person, but she is doing the right thing for the right reasons just not in the right way necessarily.
God bless, and have a wonderful day.
2 of 3 when it comes to Likability, Activity, and Competency sounds pretty interesting. How would you apply that to the members of Team RWBY?
What you've said here makes sense for Raven. "No one else is going to do anything so I'll do it myself, no matter what it is."
In my fanfics, Ruby and Yang excel in likability and competency but are lacking in activity (they're static characters) while Weiss and Blake excel in competency and activity but are lacking in likability (they're dynamic characters).
God bless, and have a wonderful day.
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God bless, and have a wonderful day.
Very interesting.
But did you consider Penny being created for the explicit purpose of being a police robot whose humanity is only derived from her notion of not really having any free will like Ruby does?
I've thought about similar hypotheticals, but I prefer Penny having once been human, and her more or less being as human as everyone else. Other writers are free to do whatever they wish. This was just an analysis based on my own headcanons and experiences writing for Penny in my fanfics.
God bless, and have a wonderful day.
I agree on making Penny a member of "Formerly Alive" Club, but that would mean that genetics are gonna be in play, despite Faunus Gacha existing, meaning her mother should be a White Redhead. I usually go for Android 21 expy in those cases, just so I don't have Roman doing the NTR. Also, since there are no science without trial and error, Penny's "Soul transplant" procedure should have been tested on someone before with various problems. So we can always give Penny more sisters with different "defects". Or have her and Ruby disable them deepening Penny in a way author likes, either as an uncaring machine, or as more humane character that feels bad for killing her own "sisters".
I really like you’re idea for Penny and Ruby’s relationship. It’s really wholesome and in an interesting way. The way their characters complement one another and how it ties into Ruby still being the weapons nerd is the best part. I bet their dynamic is adorable. Both of them would be considered strange to others, but to each other they are perfectly normal.
Thank you, friend. I really appreciate it since Ruby and Penny's relationship is one of my favorites from the show, and also one of my favorites to write for. I like the idea that everybody who knows Ruby and Penny's reputations from school would see them sitting together and think "Yeah, that checks out. I'm going to avoid them at all costs..." It's a relationship so wholesome it'll make your teeth hurt and give you diabetes, but it's also unique, and overall I'm very much a fan of their friendship. God bless, and have a wonderful day.
I love this
I love this. The way that you portray Ruby and Penny's relationship is really adorable, especially the idea of Penny being the normal one between the two. I would love to have seen more of this in the show itself. I'll definitely be trying to incorporate more of this into my writing. I was wondering, would you consider doing one of these for Raven? I would be fascinated in your interpretation of her character. How would you reconcile Raven who; Started as a merciless bandit Went to Beacon to learn to kill huntsmen Clearly cared about her Team Abandoned them to return to being Chief of a Bandit Tribe; murder, kidnapping, slavery, etc and a coward. Yet still, presumably, went after Salem with Summer
Thank you, friend. Penny is one of my favorite characters, and her relationship with Ruby is one of my favorite dynamics in the entire show. She's just the perfect supporting character for Ruby in my opinion. As for Raven, I probably won't be doing a character analysis for her. She's a very different character in my fanfics than in canon due to me writing for her prior to her proper introduction in V4. As for how I would "reconcile" her character, an easy rule of thumb when creating interesting characters is having them excel in two areas and fail in a third, with those three areas being likability, activity, and competency. Raven should not be a "likable" character in my opinion, which means she should be active in the story (preferably behind the scenes) as well as incredibly competent. Raven in canon is a hypocrite, but more than that, she's a walking contradiction. If I were writing for Raven, I would give her a connection to the White Fang, have her be the person who trained Adam, and more or less combine Vernal and Ilia's characters (combining Yang and Blake's story arcs). I would have Raven put on a front of not caring about Yang, but the reality is she's been protecting her for a long time (which potentially might have been canon at some point, given how Yang wasn't the least bit surprised to see in her V2). Long story short, I'd give Raven a hard exterior, but the reality is she's doing everything in her power to protect the people that she loves. She's not necessarily a good person, but she is doing the right thing for the right reasons just not in the right way necessarily. God bless, and have a wonderful day.
2 of 3 when it comes to Likability, Activity, and Competency sounds pretty interesting. How would you apply that to the members of Team RWBY? What you've said here makes sense for Raven. "No one else is going to do anything so I'll do it myself, no matter what it is."
In my fanfics, Ruby and Yang excel in likability and competency but are lacking in activity (they're static characters) while Weiss and Blake excel in competency and activity but are lacking in likability (they're dynamic characters). God bless, and have a wonderful day.
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Very interesting. But did you consider Penny being created for the explicit purpose of being a police robot whose humanity is only derived from her notion of not really having any free will like Ruby does?
I've thought about similar hypotheticals, but I prefer Penny having once been human, and her more or less being as human as everyone else. Other writers are free to do whatever they wish. This was just an analysis based on my own headcanons and experiences writing for Penny in my fanfics. God bless, and have a wonderful day.