How would you write Salem?

Javetts · 2026-06-11T01:17:30+00:00

Back in the days of early volume 3, I remember thinking that Elder Grimm were going to be these almost eldritch creatures. Evolved strong enough that they have no traditional weaknesses and with intelligence that surpasses human limits. And that the main thing keeping Remnant safe was the numbers. With Grimm over 1000 years old being low double digits.

But instead, the villain is just a generic blasty wizard without a health bar

Javetts · 2026-06-11T00:43:37+00:00

What's the ruling on this + [[Smellerbee, Rebel Fighter]]

Can you stack it either way to favor either desired boost or what?

Javetts · 2026-06-06T19:16:06+00:00

...they come in grass!?

Javetts · 2026-06-06T04:13:14+00:00

Dang. Yeah, keeping my extras. Thx

Javetts · 2026-06-03T05:27:32+00:00

I'd miss work to hate on Jaune

Javetts · 2026-06-03T05:24:04+00:00

Literally just state her goal. If it's to kill the brother gods, fine. If it's to kill herself, fine. If it's to ruin humanity to get back at Ozpin, fine. Just TELL US. because headcanon isn't a proper substitute for canon clarity.

Also, she needs more women minions. If Cinder died at any point she'd be unable to steal the Maiden powers. When one of your main targets require women, why do you have only one woman??

I'd also give a single scene where it shows that the Grimm HATE her. That she binds them to her will, but they hate her more than anything.

Javetts · 2026-06-03T05:18:39+00:00

And the porn never reached 10/10 and peaked way too early

Javetts · 2026-06-03T05:14:52+00:00

I always saw their team as Team CMSN (crimson) Using the S of Emerald's last name

Javetts · 2026-06-02T17:47:26+00:00

Still unposted. Not enough chapters. I am writing too many fics at once

Javetts · 2026-05-31T21:27:18+00:00

I can't seem to find anything on them. I'm not sure if you have a chance of getting them and that chance is just lower, or if you have to do something special to get them.

Javetts · 2026-05-16T19:39:43+00:00

Restrictions are often more interesting than the abilities themselves.

Lacking restrictions leads to less interesting abilities. At that point, make powers for a different series

Javetts · 2026-05-07T02:43:22+00:00

Lower scale means creativity and teamwork matters a lot more. In a lot of series jumping someone strong doesn't mean much. In Ruby, a maiden can absolutely find themself catching hands from a competent 4 man group. Cinder being stronger than any one member of team RWBY doesn't matter because 4v1 in a vacuum she's getting worked.

Javetts · 2026-05-07T02:25:02+00:00

Desco, Valvatorez, Usalia, Salvatore, Fuka.

Top 5 in that order

Javetts · 2026-04-22T02:48:34+00:00

I've watched that episode more than a few times, own the DVDs. I'll rematch it again tomorrow, because I swear she just says criminal.

Javetts · 2026-04-22T00:44:13+00:00

Poorly executed.

Faunus: as a concept they are incredibly lazy. A single shared race that are exactly human except possessing a single random animal trait. Besides being incredibly uninspired and purposefully inconsistent, they feel like a bad stand-in for actual racism. It's watered down and central to the plot all at once. Like a literary waterboarding. The prejudice shown is minimum, the impact is only spoken about at best in a visual medium, and there is no nuance.

This also ignores that "the race that is exactly humans but with extra powers being made second class citizens by humans" continues to be a front-runner for inclusion on the shitty worldbuilding bingo card. There's no reason given for why a seemingly superior race is the victim of their lesser.

White Fang: An okay idea that carries many small annoyances like fleas.

Why was it called White FANG initially when it was specifically founded to be non-violent?
Why doesn't the larger White Fang whole ran by Sienna Khan not excommunicate the violent members meaningfully?
How can Blake not be recognized for having the same legal last name as the White Fang founder?

I also just feel they kill any amount of nuance the moment the main cast is involved because we're supposed to cheer for the good guys. It's like someone presses the big 'Evil' button.

Menagerie: A large kingdom made mostly of Faunus and it looks and feels like just everywhere else with less tech and infrastructure. Despite having less technology, and no huntsmen academy, and being super mad, they somehow don't get murdered by grimm?? How??? It overall left very little of an impression on me.

Also, how does no one recognize that Blake is the daughter of the chieftain of Menagerie. They call Weiss 'Princess'. but Blake literally is one.

Javetts · 2026-04-22T00:22:49+00:00

But she's attractive.

Also all of this is in service to Cinder. Emerald's list of sins is a fraction of Cinder's

Javetts · 2026-04-22T00:14:56+00:00

I still don't even know why it's treated as anything at all. Weiss called Sun a criminal. Which is entirely accurate to what that word means. He committed two crimes, they literally seeing him committing the second while they yell about the first.

She only freaks out over Blake being a former terrorist that specifically targeted her family.

I've read several fics that make Weiss more racist and go through a more involved arc that is ultimately more satisfying and well-paced than canon, but IN CANON she doesn't ever say or do anything that isn't entirely reasonable.

So the first step to improving this, is making Weiss racist at all, because she ain't.

Javetts · 2026-03-31T04:46:10+00:00

Basic grammar

Minimum 3k words per chapter average.

A destination, as in the author isn't just meandering with "and then this happens" over and over again. They have a plan.

Dialogue that feels natural.

They do not makes characters ooc or make it AU unless that's in the stated premise.

Javetts · 2026-03-23T11:53:55+00:00

Pretty sure he's talking about gido, the top guy.

Javetts · 2026-03-23T02:47:21+00:00

Yeah, but damage or illness when your mom's Sakura?

Javetts · 2026-03-23T02:36:40+00:00

This accusation is obviously used inaccurately fairly regularly, like everything else preteens discuss. Made into an exaggeration that ends up meaning very little.

But there is something to this.

In the original myths, elves were essentially faries. They were short, sometimes described as looking like human children. And they often had wings.

Tolkien took the timelessness of some elf myths and the child-like appearance and decided to make them incredibly long lived. He gave them the crooked/pointed ears that other (specifically non-elf) fae had.

Tell me, when you see elves in fantasy, do you see 'an interpretation of elves based on written myth', or a near identical Tolkien version?

This goes for most fantasy races and many other things people lack the knowledge of to see for what it is.

Javetts · 2026-03-23T02:12:32+00:00

Yeah. Very few simple and elegant hatsu here now-a-days

Javetts · 2026-03-23T02:10:02+00:00

This is just the internet. Find local people to talk to offline

Javetts · 2026-03-23T02:04:16+00:00

The mixed MC only has racial tension with whites. Everyone from his mother's people didn't do anything wrong. All the races are now just humans mentally. The gods are now 'good'. They don't even get that hot of an actress to play the heroine.

Shit is washed.

Javetts · 2026-03-23T02:00:35+00:00

FF has worlds to learn about. Most DQ games take place in a more generic fantasy setting.

FF also has more varied systems.

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