#team clvr

The moderators of the Fair Game Effect Server hosted AMA’s for content creators and we participated (and had loads of fun doing so!) We wanted to post the questions and answers here for y’all who aren’t involved over there. 

Here we go!!!

Essentially, Clover! After episode 12, a lot of us came together on the Clover Deserved Better Server. Once there, a few of us, including our previous member Ryan, had talked about creating a rewrite of the RWBY show from start to finish. A server was made and many joined in. The first change ever made from CRWBY-canon was that Clover would not die. It was also obvious for us that we were going to have fairgame canon in our rewrite, shortly thereafter we landed on Qrow and Clover being married before RWBY even takes place. Both characters hold a special place in our hearts and it’s Clover and Qrow who inspired us to take lead and start this project!

The biggest changes we wanted to see in RWBY Rewrite was more representation for POC and LGBT+ We’ve talked about characters ethnicities, gender identities, and sexualities at length and it’s something we want to take very seriously. Some of us draw on our own experiences and lives when discussing potential ideas. We haven’t confirmed many, but so far we have:

trans Nora

genderfluid Neo

non-binary Ren 

For ethnicities, culture, and racial backgrounds, we tend to look to their inspirations or who they’re based off of for more than just default white.

Additionally, we wanted to give each character a bit more depth. To be less vague, a lot of the background characters feel one-dimensional, and we want to explore and flesh them out even if those details wont be touched upon as much in canon. We are also tweaking a few relationships, but that's something you'll have to wait to see!

Yes! We generally like to allude to their inspirations. Some of the birthdays carry meaning behind them:

Cinder’s birthday being on a holiday about witches and bonfires

Weiss’s birthday being on the last blue moon we had

Others were simple:

“Haha, Tai on tie-dye day

“Mercury is a bitch, I’m a bitch, why not both be gemini bitches?”

We actually started the project in the midst of the Clover Deserved Better movement, and therefore made the decision to keep Clover immediately as we not only wanted him back, but we thought it was a good writing decision as Clover balances Qrow out.

Immediately following that decision, we knew we wanted Qrow and Clover together romantically. Within approximately a week of knowing that, it was suggested that they knew each other from the Vytal Tournament, and it quickly evolved into them being together since their Academy days and being married before RWBY takes place.

After we decided they met at the Vytal Tournament, it kind of evolved into this monolith of an idea. If you read during fairgame week this post, they initially meet during the ball, but they don’t exchange names. Clover spends most of the tournament trying to find Qrow. They end up actually fighting in the 4x4s in the tournament. Clover and Qrow end up freezing when they see each other, and Clover first hears Qrow’s name from one of the announcers.

A dynamic we want to make sure is clear with their relationship is trust. Since Clover is in the military, and Qrow doesn’t necessarily trust Ironwood, we want to convey that Qrow trusts Clover with his entire heart and vice versa. They are also incredibly close to their nieces. Mirroring how Ruby looks up to Qrow, Yang looks up to Clover! This is reflected in her design, mostly the sleeveless-ness. Fashion runs in the family.

While we don’t want to give too much away, we have worked hard at developing Clover’s backstory! For one, we created a team (team CLVR) that he used to be a part of and has since grown apart from, but they are still lifelong friends. (You can read more about them here.)

We’re trying to give everyone established backstories, even if they don’t make it into the story itself we like to have them there for continuity and it helps to see how characters would interact based on their experiences etc...

We are developing a lot with the history of Remnant. It’s not complete, but a few things we are working on are the White Fang and the Great War.

STRQ: We are diving deep into this team, actually!

We have a lot of ideas for Summer specifically, about who she was before she became “Ruby’s dead mom, Tai’s dead wife”.

We want to make Raven’s feelings a bit more clear, specifically with her initial trust and love for her team and what caused those feelings to fade away.

They’re going to have some more designs as well, reflecting their ages. (They don’t need to wear the same outfits from birth to death).

We will be focusing on Tai’s emotional state after losing the of the loves in his life, as well as developing his relationship with his daughters.

There is still much more to be done for them, but we plan on giving them plenty of love and development.

Those are all the questions we got! If this sparked any curiosity in ya, feel free to send asks!

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team clvr are bucking the trend babey, no token faunus on their team

ciara ebi. 20, cis female, token human. was never vaccinated. freckles. bi. currently dating rhiannon & planning to overthrow ironwood’s tyrannical reign & introduce a new peaceful order & name change. mostly the name change. 6ft feral babey.

lavender anu. 20, cis female, horse faunus. bisexual. will say wow that’s so wild in the most deadpan voice. has maybe shown One Emotion in her entire life. some say she can see into another dimension. has a cute russian hat that hides her ears. queen, we stan.

vionn cerowain. 20, trans male, reindeer faunus. gay. has antlers & will headbutt a bitch. ciara’s chaotic partner in crime & platonic soul mate. snarky little bastard & has never felt fear in his life. would absolutely quote mean girls while beating your ass. King.

rhiannon o’gormain. 20, cis female, cow faunus. lesbian. she is team mom & suffers so much. has horns bc highland cow. wears those sweaters that all moms did in the 90s. rhiannon by fleetwood mac plays bass boosted. empath & best therapist.