“Shiloh (what Shay D. Man was renamed as by Celtic and company) is the father of Vernal, and Raven is her mother. Mupa drew a comic depicting the relationship, and it grew on Celtic. The two weren't married, and the running theory of the Sketchy Huntsmen is that Raven "does the rounds" at the Branwen camp, reguarly dragging people into her tent. Celtic mentions that Raven has a softer spot for Shiloh a little more than other people in the tribe. Celtic mentions Raven being "a little more tsundere" when it comes to Shiloh.”
This is stupid and reeks of high school OC. Raven is so cool, she fucks EVERYONE and has a SUPER PRETTY AND COOL DAUGHTER. Anyone who uses the word tsundere like that should be shot also.
“In response to someone saying that there needed to be more fight scenes and less talking, Celtic says that more fight scenes aren't needed to be interesting.”
True, but the original draw to RWBY definitely wasn’t its plot. In the realm of FRWBY, there was a LOT of standing around and conversations I’ve already forgotten.
“Celtic says one of his big issues with canon RWBY is how RT doesn't take responsibility for their blunders or acknowledge failures and flaws.”
Also true, but neither does Celtic. In the rare occasion he admits to mistakes, he prefers to double down on them, which is equally as bad. Actually, I’d prefer if he
did leave out the “blunders.” I’d rather a minor plot hole than forcing a bad plot point.
“It's something that could open the door for a backstory, and offers Kali a niche and a chance to be more than just "Blake's mother".”
RWBY already has issues with character bloat, why “open the door” for the backstory on someone who works perfectly fine in her current role? I’m not really interested in Blake’s mother as a person, she’s a minor character, so I care more about what her with Blake interactions say about Blake.
“According to Celtic responding to someone mentioning they didn't quite get Raven, Raven doesn't fully understand herself. As she tries to act cool and collected, she's actually very impulsive and selfish and doesn't want to acknowledge that part of herself. However, she has soft spots for some people, and torn between the love she has for Vernal and the love she has for herself.”
She’s just constantly contradicting her own writing, and the supposed love she has for her daughter isn’t really ever seen. She’s selfish to a comedic level that doesn’t feel genuine.
“In regards to Ruby not having much reaction to being related to Vernal, Celtic says that it's not that important of a scene that needed to be followed up on, but the more interesting thing was Yang having another sister beyond Ruby. Yang would be excited if it wasn't for the circumstances. Ruby doesn't have as much of a connection to Vernal as Yang does. Celtic calls it a slight oversight, but not a damning one.”
Why
wouldn’t Ruby have that thought when Yang does? While Ruby isn’t related to Vernal by blood, I feel like it would seriously intrigue anyone to find out about a secret family member, especially one their age. Celtic is showing a serious lack of creativity here. Not to mention Ruby is your
main character, you may as well give her more to work with.
“To Celtic, Roman was his favorite character to write.”
You don’t say? I’m almost certain I saw a picture of him in Roman cosplay before.
“He says he's dangerous to write because he can chew and absorb scenes where he appears, and you want to keep going with him, and so you have to be careful when writing him, and Celtic isn't sure if he succeeded in that regard. Celtic says Roman is fun to write because he's taking the piss out of everyone and everything, including himself. Vernal was also fun to write. He also liked writing Ilia because of her tragic story.”
Celtic writes this supposed charisma the same way dumb people write smart people: they think it just works like magic, and everything they say is charismatic because they say so. He wins people over by existing, he’s just so darn charming. His jokes are always funny and he’s just messing around, guys! He’s so snarky! And definitely not a self-insert.
“However, the fact that it took until V8 for Oscar to have some personality made Celtic feel it wasn't worth the effort, and Celtic feels he got the same amount of character dynamic with Roman by the end of V5.”
It’s called FIXING RWBY. You’re supposed to FIX that. You make Oscar work by coming up with a better personality for him, but for Celtic this was apparently too daunting a task, because why would a writer want to write something? I just believe that was his only reason. It’s probably not a coincidence that Roman more vaguely resembles Celtic and his favorite archetype while Oscar doesn’t.
“So the relationship is more Yang and Blake trying to repair their relationship, which he says will be featured in V6.”
Oh I cannot WAIT to see how he handles romance.
“The Spring Maiden twist of Raven being the Maiden instead of Vernal was kept because RT really wanted to have it in”
Like how RT really wanted to have Oscar, yeah?
“The Roman and Neo reunion was done the way it was because Roman masks his relief with comedy and being a goof. This is in response to people saying Roman should have been crying and breaking down.”
I don’t think Celtic understands that if you want a moment like that to hit,
that’s when you have character breaks, to show Roman is so overwhelmed he can’t “mask” it anymore. That scene is literally just FFIX’s ending but bad.
“Celtic was tempted to have an almost kiss between Weiss and Vernal, and the ship name for them was decided to be "Snow Lillies"”
Celtic and co prove to be unable to comprehend relationships beyond romance and “shipping” fuel, because Celtic’s only exposure to women is slice of life yuri I guess. I know about this ship name because during premieres, Mupa would shout about it like every scene they were together.
“To Celtic, a lot of the issues with racism in Remnant are more people based than government based.”
Yes, that’s why he believes when you’re subject to racist torment, it’s best to ignore it and keep being nice until the dude falls in love with you, according to Velvet and Cardin. Something tells me Celtic doesn’t have the best grasp on sociopolitics.
Skipping a bunch I might get back to later, but I wanted to address
“The Faunus heat cycle is just a background element that causes friction. There's an element/character that affects in a way that you wouldn't expect. Celtic says there's lots of horrifying implications to heat cycles, and it's a disadvantage to Faunus in terms of biology. It's mostly a lore element.”
The whole heat cycle and heat pills thing he talked about and doubled down on is just a fanfic fetish trope. If you wanted a disadvantage to faunus biology, you could’ve chosen, I dunno, poor vision or hypersensitivity or foods they can’t eat or something. Only a true coombrain would go straight for ABO. Also, the concept of a minority causing conflict by being extremely horny is… a bit tasteless, to say the least.
“Celtic claims he was bullied into doing the onsen episode (he says he could talk about it more in the artist stream(s)), but eventually warmed up to it, citing the thematic of characters stripping themselves naked and opening themselves up to each other emotionally.
Celtic says he tried to make the onsen scenes as tasteful as possible, but some of the artists missed the memo.”
I also doubt this. In fact, it’s an outright lie.
It’s also not tasteful, even in the script. If Celtic wanted a realistic onsen, he’d know they function like spas, and they’re not a place for intense conversation and splashing. The artists “didn’t get the memo” even though he’s the director of the project, which just makes him look like a careless director.
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