Darkness Within Q&A

Hello all! Walkman355 here, or as y'all in my closer circle know me as W*****…what the hell, was that censored? Well whatever, I have the whole CARD crew here with me and we will be tearing it up on the bandwaves!

Knives, "This is so stupid, I can't believe you have us all here to discuss what will happen in the future."

Caradin, "This is what will happen. With dangerous knowledge of the future we will rewrite history and then the robots will never side with the Grimm and we will win the war!"

Deverou, "Caradin, please stop watching so many movies; they distort your sense of reality."

Luxus, "Coming from the guy with the magic eye?"

Deverou, "You want some?"

Excuse me, figments of my creativity? Yes, I'd like it if you all just shut up and do your job. Gee thanks!

Knives, "Asshole."

Watch your mouth…or I will erase it.

Luxus, "Okay, so let's get onto the questions. The first question is from VenomSpider33 and they ask, 'What are the pairings between Team CARD and Team RWBY?"

Knives: "Is this seriously a question?"

Deverou: "I didn't even know there were pairings in the first place."

Caradin: "Is he asking like friends or like lovers?"

Doesn't matter. The truth behind the pairings is initially I had planned it so that Knives and Ruby became lovers, then I started thinking about other pairings. I knew Blake's past with Adam would lead to guilt and abandoning the team later (low and behold I was right) so I had planned Caradin to be an Anti-Adam. Someone who would comfort and counsel her on the path of good; Deverou and Weiss I had also planned on being lovers, because the butler/ heiress thing is super cliché and every Black Butler fan would flock to my story because of Deverou. Finally, I had planned on Yang and Luxus just being friends who flirt since I had already planned on him having a different girlfriend.

Luxus: "So I was designed to be friend-zoned by Yang? Ouch."

Caradin: laughing "Holy crap dude!"

Deverou: "Lady Weiss and I!? How unorthodox! NEXT QUESTION!"

Knives: "Ghost Fire 6 asks, 'Will Romeo and Sinon be in a relationship after season 2? Also will the two Assassins cross paths before Romeo confronts his target?"

It's a good question, I had definitely planned on them becoming an assassin duo after season 2 so I kinda like the romantic aspects of what it can be. And they will actually meet and fight right as Romeo tries to assassinate Knives.

Knives: "Yeah, wait what!?"

Caradin: still laughing "Okay, next question is from TheIceCreamNinja and they ask, 'Will you be trying to have the story go along with the main groups?'

Well it'd be a pretty dull story if I didn't have Ruby and the others here to add some comedy to an otherwise dark story.

Knives: "I mean you could actually try to be funny on your own."

Shut up.

Luxus: "He has a point, some comedy would improve on the story as a whole."

Fine, but I'm only doing witty humor and the occasional joke of dialougue.

Deverou: "Alright so the next questions we have come from Code-Emperor07, 'What do you have planned for Edan and the rest of Team MEST? Also, will Cain make an appearance soon, and what is the deal with Sammy's rabbit puppet?'

A little more character development and romance for Edan and Mary and a bit of elaboration on Sammy and Teena's pasts, that way I can properly build their character's growth in the third season and branch out their characters to make them integral to development. As for the Cain question, I will feature him but he won't assume a full antagonistic role until after the Vytal Festival. As for Sammy's rabbit; since Sammy keeps his mindset as to that of a child almost constantly regressing himself, the rabbit is like Johann it is a physical manifestation of his hatred and pain. So in that side chapter when Teena took it away from him, he assumed his own age essentially fusing both halves of himself and taking full control as Samuel. I plan for this effect to begin to appear in Knives later as he stops conflicting with himself and begins to work with Johann. I will also show more of Sammy and Teena's weapons to give you all an idea of their roles on their team.

Knives: "Because baby blue totally needs to be a main character."

Couldn't agree more.

Knives: "Sarcasm."

Oh I got it, I just don't care!

Luxus: "You guys seriously need to quit being so bitchy, we need to let this be organized."

Deverou: "Indeed, so here I will read the next question. Darkmoonrise312 asks…" reads the stream of questions "Holy shit."

Caradin: "It can't be that bad." reads the stream of questions "Holy shit."

Enter Ruby

Ruby: "What's going on?"

Q&A

Ruby: "Who was that?"

The voice of GOD, now make me a sandwich!

Knives: "Our idiot writer, so let's answer a few of these since they're addressed to us personally."

Luxus: "Ok, cool. 'How long till Johann kills off the whole cast?"

Knives: "Never. Next question, 'Anyone you want to kill in a fit of rage?' Oh this is a dumb question, I don't need rage to kill anyone. But if I were though, probably Weiss if she set me off again."

Ruby: "Behave! She's my teammate after all, yes she can be difficult but she means well."

Knives: "Sorry, however I know who we wouldn't need to be enraged to kill."

Knives & Ruby: "Cardin Winchester."

Deverou: "The rest of these are addressed to our writer here. 'How'd you choose which OCs would be main characters and which to sideline? Anything you regret doing or not doing? Kill, fuck, or marry?"

Oh these are easy. My selection process is rather simple, if I've worked with you for a while I show some favoritism so Pyron and Edan's teams are safe. Second is if I like the characters enough to keep them. I already plan on splitting 2 teams down the middle and then fusing whoever's left over and as things progress and I begin to write more it'll be easier to flesh out characters. So essentially I'm removing 8 OCs and sidelining at least 3 teams out of the 7 I have right now; fused team included. Anything I regret doing or not doing; well I know I regret not really going back and rewriting all of this sooner because I have a lot to revise to build the characters, dialogue, and story to be more immersive and something I regret doing is taking on so many OCs at once. Granted so many of them are wonderful and the story and characters have really taken on a life of their own, but it's a shame that I have to bench so many. And then kill, fuck, or marry? Um…to be honest if I had to kill, fuck, or marry any OCs I have the list right here.

Knives: "Oh, shit."

I would definitely kill Carlos, as a character he's alright but I feel he's more of comedy relief in his team than anything else. Fuck…I would definitely get down with Mary Knight, that girl is F-I-N-E FINE! And marry, I would marry Velvet Scarlatina she is cute and although we haven't seen her in a fight yet I bet she'd be a complete badass.

Luxus: "That, was saner than I thought it would be.

Deverou: "I never knew he had such thoughts."

Caradin: "Oh please, like you've never thought of Mark Knight that way."

Luxus: "I'm not allowed to."

Knives & Ruby: "What?"

Luxus: "Newt would kill me; with my shins."

Knives: "Speaking of Newt, the next question is about her. From…"

Door busts down

Pyron: "Sup bitches."

Knives: "Dude, get out of here we're busy!"

Pyron: "No way, I have a question."

Knives: sighs "What is it?"

Pyron: "Luxus…how are you alive after dating Newt for so long?"

Luxus: "Um, well. She really seems to care about me and so long as I behave I don't get punished."

Pyron: "What are you 8? Live a little man! I know this great club on the southside that will…"

Hammer smashes on his head knocking him out

Newt: "Oh I'm sorry. Did I do that?"

Silence

Newt: "I have a question Luxy!"

Luxus: gulps "Ask away my little flower."

Newt: "Why do you hang out with Yang so much?"

Oh my god, I just covered this! I had planned him to have a flirty relationship with her even though he had a girlfriend to illustrate what good friends they were!

Newt: "Oh, and you didn't think the girlfriend would be jealous?"

Um, I didn't think it would matter since you all aren't real!

Newt: "Excuse me Luxy!"

Wait, where the hell is she going? Door breaks down How did you get in here? Wait no! breaking noises Get back, I'm warning you! SNAPscreaming My leg wasn't supposed to bend that way! BANG CRASH Stop beating me with my TV! Coughing I like my blood in my body please. I'm gonna pass out now.

Luxus: "Now do you see?"

Pyron: "I'm uh, gonna get her out of here."

Knives: "Well let's move on to the next question from The 13 Paged NoteBook, 'How is the story going to follow canon?"

Coughing Same as before; I will keep each chapter as close to the episode we see as possible and if I feel like it I may add a few extra chapters to branch out the story and flesh out the characters…next?

Knives: They're from Archenarcaleptc, "Do you plan on keeping Team ROSE as an important plot point? Does the story follow the chess piece diagram? And how did Ragnar and Knives become friends/ sparring partners?"

I'll answer the first two, I think Knives will want to cover the last one. As for keeping them as major players, I already said I can't reveal who will be bumped from the main story so you'll have to wait and see. As for the whole chess piece thing; no, it won't. Since I chose the chess diagram based on the whole idea of RWBY and their teams and I chose pieces at random, no one is honestly more important than RWBY and CARD…and maybe JNPR, because I like all of their characters. Anyone else will be chosen at random based on how much I give a crap to write them.

Luxus: "That doesn't boost morale for your readers much."

Your girlfriend attacked me, you don't deserve an opinion. Knives you're up, let lose the embarrassing tale.

Knives: "Well, it started when Cardin and Jaune were sparring. See we'd all been sparring for months and I wiped the floor with most people I was put up against because I felt like being a little brutal. Just to name the only four I sparred: Zero, Bertilak, Pyron, and Sarais; who was surprisingly the toughest. So then after whooping his teammate, Ragnar requested to fight me and although Professor Goodwitch protested I didn't see the harm in kicking his ass. Let's just say there hasn't been a time I couldn't outmaneuver or overpower an opponent until then. Ragnar was just as fast as he was strong so after clashing blades about three times he finally brought me to my knees and decided to break two of my ribs. After that, I wanted to keep fighting him because out of all of us he was one of the few to even bring me to my knees. Happy?"

I was honestly expecting more defiance or indignation, that's very mature of you Knives.

Knives: "Eat a dick."

There's the guy I know and hate. Ok, Deverou let's hear that next question!

Deverou: "It's the final question actually, who is you favorite OC? From zero the raiden."

Oh wow, that is a pretty hard question. I'd have to say, that if I had to pick my favorite it'd have to be Rory Farbe. When I first saw the design for his character I thought I would never accept him, but then after a bit of persuasion from the creator and a little re-thinking of the character on my own he quickly turned into one of the coolest characters I had. He was the first character I felt took on a life of his own. So that's all, have fun.

Knives: "Yeah, so have fun with the rest of the series and I'll hear your comments soon."