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Though in all fairness there isn't a Fantastic Four or Gilgamesh in this reality either.
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But those are just stories that an individual is able to allude to in their work. There are various literary devices that one can use to implement a Gilgamesh into Remnant or the Fantastic Four as a kind of 'quip' to Marvel because people do that in their literary work all the time. Final Fantasy was able to insert Caladbolg and Gilgamesh into their works, as well as Bahamut and Tiamat. Same goes for Jormungandr. Though I dunno if Final Fantasy is a good example to use... *shrug* I used it anyways. Let it bite me in the ass later. ._.

However, it takes a lot of restructuring and a lot of work to implement an entire culture into a story. And even then, they don't reuse its actual name. Take Avatar for reference: the Earth Nation obviously alludes to and has ties to China and its culture, but they spent a lot of work detailing its background to make it fairly unique within the world; however, it keeps its ties solid and fairly noticeable to the nation its based off of. Same goes for the Water Nations and Eskimos and the Fire Nation and Imperial Japan and the Air Nomads and all those countries near the Himalayas (Napal, Tibet, others?). Pretty sure there were also various tie ins to other religions in conjunction to the Avatar (Hindi, I'm thinking, and maybe Shinto and Buddhism? I may be grasping at straws there, since I'm not too well read on my religions.)

I'm just saying that I find it very believable and very easy to insert things like Gligamesh and mainly stories and allusions to other works than it is to insert whole nations and places and cultures and entire religions with religious doctrines and books and stories themselves that have deep roots here in the real world rather than in this particular world we're writing in. I'm not saying we can't do it, it just takes more work than a mere reference. I think that's a big part of RPing, crafting things, twisting things, making them unique, but they do require a lot of work and writing to do so, in my opinion.

Sorry I bring this up now and don't mistake any of my words as aggression. I'm doing my best to keep this logical and levelheaded instead of bitchy and complaining. Who knows how well I'm doing in those regards. But, I don't mean to brush it aside and leave it in the abyss after spring cleaning, I'm just saying that if we wanna make these references, I feel we should probably work on their lore and background a whole lot more. Within the story, as well, not just in the OOC. Maybe in the OOC. Depends on what we're talking about here. If we're retconning entire nations, we should probably find a place to work on that, rather than putting everything in the IC (cause that shit will get hella long hella fast). *Shrug* As well, we should also probably work to make them Remnant like, keep them within the confines of the lore (though we have a lot to work with, so that shouldn't be too difficult. Wait, do we? I'm pretty sure we do; don't hold this against me pls D: I mean, we're already bending lore as is, I just don't want to bend it too much that it breaks. You get what I be sayin?). I guess it just takes dedication and a fascination with both RWBY and real world shet.

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Doggy isn't related to the post above. I just thought it was super cute. Omg. >_<