Mother Maiden AU OC Contest Rules

Hello everyone! Soundwave3591 here.

Contest Dates:

Opening: June 1^st, 2017, 12:01 AM, US Eastern Time.

Closing: June 30^th, 2017, 11:59 PM, US Eastern Time.

Nothing submitted before or after these dates will be accepted. Period.

And that means I don’t want people saying “hey, is this okay?” and throwing their whole character Bio at me to try and get a foot in the door. If you have a specific question, fine, but focus your point ON the Question. If your character’s Name, Age, Classification, etc.  have nothing to do with the question, I don’t want to hear it until your final submission.

All submissions will be graded equally, regardless if they’re submitted at 12:02 AM on June 1^st or at 11:58 PM on June 30^th. Don’t think getting your character in “early” is going to give you a level up. Don’t rush it. You’ve got a month to think and design, and a month to submit. Take your time and put your best effort in.

HOW TO ENTER:

Compile your relevant information and send it to me in a Deviantart Note. Once you’ve done that, Comment on the "Contest has begun" Journal (to be posted June 1st) to say you have entered, and what category your character is in! (the reason for this will be explained in the rules)

In order to help keep you guys from feeling like you’re being judged by everyone, I would like everyone to send me their character info in a private note. Your comment on the "Contest has begun" Journal is the official “entry.” You MUST comment, even if you’ve sent the Note, or it will not be counted.



Time Periods: To keep it simple, Three sections are available.

1: The “Grimm Incursion” covering a roughly 4 year period after the Fall of Beacon.
Events in this period include:

Formation of the Red Fang and the 'Grimm Legion:" Adam Taurus, enraged by Yang Xiao Long blasting out one of his eyes in her rescue of Blake from his clutches, Swears fealty to Salem and offers the White Fang as an army. Salem, delighted, empowers Adam with the ability to command Grimm and other dark powers, and incorporates the White Fang into the Grimm-Worshiping Cult of Shalim, creating the "Red Fang" and organizing a dangerous threat to the world. Joining Cinder and her followers, the Army of Darkness heads for war.  

The Siege of Mistral: Red Fang forces have Mistral surrounded and under bombardment, and Huntsman teams, against the instructions of the headmasters, join the Mistral Marines and the Mistral skirmishers in trying to outflank them. Back-and-forth battles in the hills and forests with Red Fang units and Bandit groups force the Huntsmen to confront the fact that the Grimm are not their only enemy, and the Military of Mistral, lain dormant for 80 years, must adapt on the fly to the realities of combat.

The Battle of Atlas: Red Fang Forces shut down Atlas’ automated systems and incite the Schnee Dust miners to revolt, forcing the Huntsmen to do battle in the frozen wastes. Alongside the Knights of Mantle and the Atlesian Specialists and Military, the Huntsmen do battle with Cinder Fall’s forces on the glaciers and in the ruins of Mantle.

The Vacuo Massacre: Cinder Fall, smarting from defeat in Mistral and Atlas, takes full advantage of both her powers and Salem’s abilities, and engineers a vast Grimm “Sandstorm” that swallows the Kingdom of Vacuo, killing thousands and laying waste to the city and dust mines. However, Mercury Black abandons Cinder’s cause after suffering serious injuries and callous treatment, and thus the Huntsmen are ready and waiting with the Vacuo Scouts and the Atlas Desert Corps to intercept her army after the storm has passed.

Cinder Fall disappears after this, only to turn up mysteriously killed two years later.

Pyrrha Nikos becomes the Fall Maiden, gives birth to Lia and JJ.


2: the “Time of Troubles.”

Despite the victory of the Kingdoms over the Red Fang and Cinder Fall, all is not well in the world of Remnant: Suspicion of the Huntsmen is high, with many blaming them for the chaos of the past five years.
          Atlas is in ruins, with the government on the verge of collapse and the economy in tatters. Mistral is rapidly militarizing, leaving some to fear the old Great War antagonist will become expansionist once more. The Faunus in particular have it rough, feeling the blame for the atrocities the Red Fang carried out and their continuing terror attacks on the Kingdoms.

On the other hand, Vale and Vacuo are both rebuilding, and Vacuo is experiencing something of a rebirth, as new Dust Mines and companies start to raise the standard of living. However, the people of these kingdoms tend to take an isolationist view as regards aiding Atlas and the dispossessed refugees, citing it as ‘someone else’s problem.”

Events in this period include:

Atlesian Depression and Revolution: Hyperinflation and famine cause the downfall of the 3-part Atlesian government, replaced with a wildly-varied “Center Party” congress of different political groups. Little progress can be made as party politics often prevent cooperation, and running street battles between armed gangs have the population in a state of panic.

Death of Jacques Schnee and collapse of Schnee Dust, adding to Atlas’ woes.

Formation of the Huntsmen Oversight Committee, to control and regulate Huntsmen activities and their level of authority. In reality a bureaucracy that allows the Kingdoms to control the Huntsmen.

Formation of White Paw, in Blake’s desperate attempt to reclaim the White Fang’s original mission. Is recognized by Vale and Vacuo, but has little authority.

Formation of “The New Path” under ex-Atlesian Specialist Sterling Butler, Promising reform and peaceful streets in Atlas under the banner of social reform, Faunus rights, rebuilding the Military and technological base, and Blaming the Huntsmen for Remnant’s woes. With the “Pathfinders” armed force, they soon rise to the top of the Atlesian government, becoming the de facto ruling government when Butler is appointed chancellor under public pressure. He quickly consolidates power to himself, effectively becoming a Dictator.

Destruction of Beacon Academy and Shade Academy by the New Path, the former by the New Path forces in an effort to rescue Jaune Arc, Jr., an NP member, and the latter through the use of a Superweapon as part of a long-running plan by Butler to wipe out the Huntsmen.

The New Path occupies Vacuo, forcing the surviving Huntsmen to flee to Vale.


The Second Great War: roughly 20 years after the Fall of Beacon.

The New Path, having occupied Vacuo at the request of the kingdom’s emergency council and neutralized dissenting elements in the city of Trobruk, turns its gunsights against Vale. When the Kingdom does not submit, Butler launches an overland invasion. Having only a small force of border guards, the Vale forces soon find themselves overwhelmed and forced to retreat.

Lia Nikos, daughter of Pyrrha and Jaune, organizes a resistance group of her fellow students and other allies under the tutelage of Mercury Black and Neopolitan, who have come out of hiding to fight back. Calling themselves ‘The Sweeney’ the group raids New Path lines of communication and outposts. Working in conjunction with forces within Vacuo, they weaken the New Path’s assault on Vale by forcing them to divert forces away from the front to track them down.
          Meanwhile, Volunteers from Mistral pour into Vale, bringing weapons and equipment to shore up the defenses. The remaining Vacuo scouts also join in, allowing the “United Kingdoms” forces to blunt the New Path assault in the ruins of Mountain Glenn. Things take a turn for the worse, however, when Butler unleashes his secret weapon: The Pathmakers, Huntsmen brainwashed to serve his will and/or equipped with massive suits of power armor.
Pitched battles the like not seen since the Great War erupt around the embattled Kingdom.

And the final battle is yet to come, As Pyrrha Rallies her strength, and knows what she must do…


Categories for submission:

1: Huntsmen/Huntresses (individual or teams, Academy Students or Professionals. If you submit a character as a Student in the “Grimm Incursion” period, you can (but you are not required) to design them all the way through to the 2^nd Great War.)

 

2: New Path personnel (Pathfinders, State Security members, Mantle Night Life figures (think Las Vegas) or Liberated Faunus) These can be righteous souls or complete bastards, it’s up to you how their personality will flow. 
References to New Path uniforms and Kit can be found in the “MM! AU” Gallery in my deviantart gallery.

Note: feel free to get creative with weapons and gear: the Pathfinders have recruited Huntsmen among their ranks, and they have confiscated and reverse-engineered a large amount of Huntsman gear.

2^nd Note: please try to refrain from having them desert: Loyalty to a cause can trump personal feelings more often than not. You can have them be morally tormented, but unless you can write it really well don’t just have them jump ship at the first moment.

3: Red Fang members (either ex-White Fang converts or Shalim Cultists, and note that these are not limited to the period immediately after the fall of Beacon: the RF is active all the way up to the Second Great War.) 

 

4: Sweeney Members (who could be Huntsmen Academy students or professionals, Criminals, Ex-Red Fang, Occasional Deserters from the New Path, armed citizens of Vale and Vacuo, etc. This is one area where your character can be multiple categories: for example, a Huntsman and a Sweeney member.)

 

5: The People of Remnant: These could be ordinary civilians or members of some of the groups I’ve created, for example:

 Mistral Skirmishers
 Mistral Armed forces
Vale Rangers
Vacuo Scouts
 Knights of Mantle
 Humanity First
 The White Paw
Guardians of the Maidens
 Arc Clan or Nikos Clan members
Corporations that broke away from Schnee Dust

 etc, etc. Organizations you created yourself are also welcome, provided comprehensive background info is presented. 

This category can double as Sweeney members, if placed correctly in the timeline.   

 

When submitting your character ideas, please, please, PLEASE be as descriptive as possible, particularly of their appearance and weapons. If you cannot provide images of the character themselves, please provide as many references as you can.

 If you’re using an image someone else has drawn for you, make sure you have permission from the original artist first. 

 

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Now, what would a contest be without a prize?  There will be three places: 

Third Place: a drawing by me of their OC. 

 

Second Place: a drawing by me of their OC, and a drawing of their favorite canon RWBY character.

 

First Place: OC drawing, Fave Character drawing, and a drawing of a scene of their choice and description, be it from the canon series or a scene they conceive set in the AU. (No “Adult content” please)

 

All three will also become “Canon” characters in the AU, participating in the events they are set in. 

Now, to avoid spamming of a single category ( IE, everyone submitting Huntsmen, and so forth), there must be at least two submissions to each category in order for the contest to move ahead.

This is why, when you comment to say you have entered, please state what category your character is in: so people can see what’s what as regards the categories.

Rules:

 -As stated above, when you submit your character and your entry comment, please state which category your characters are in.

To make it easy, simply state what number category they’re in: for example, if you’re submitting a Huntsman and a New Path officer, you would say
“Hey, I just entered! My characters are Category 1 and 2.”

This is to help keep track of the numbers in each category. And on that note:

- Four characters, no more. Huntsman teams count as one entity, but only one team per participant: the other three entries have to be individuals.  And all four members of the team have to have Bios of their own. 

-Seasonal Maidens are out of bounds. They are already characters in the AU (Pyrrha’s one of them, and so is her mother.) Characters affiliated with them (like Pyrrha’s father, or agents of Ozpin) are allowed, however. 

-No one assassinates Butler, Heydrich, Salem, Cinder, Raven or Adam. I’m sorry, I know you want to put a power-fist through their foreheads, but their fates are already in place, don’t worry.  

- Please try to abide by the Color Rule when naming your OC: the Name has to be a color, sound like a color, reference a color, or make you think of a color. Such is the will of Monty Oum.

For example, Sterling Butler: the former references Sterling Silver, which references his silver eyes, while the latter brings to mind a Butler in their Black uniform.

There’s plenty of assets out there for ideas and color meanings, so get creative!

-Any members of Families must have the family name in their own: an Arc is an Arc, a Nikos a Nikos. You can combine their names (Liakada Nikos-Arc, for example) but they must have the family name in their own. 

-Relations with main characters are allowed (within reason) but try to avoid “long lost siblings” and so forth.  One of Qrow and Taiyang’s old Huntsmen associates, Ruby and Yang’s friends, Blake’s old White Fang pals, etc. 

-Please try to avoid overt fetish fuel, or otherwise “adult content” as regards your character: we’re all mature here, but let’s be serious.

-Relations with characters in the AU are allowed (again, within reason) for example, Lia’s classmates at Beacon or JJ’s associates in the NP Science division, or Pyrrha’s office co-workers at the HOC. HOWEVER, No one “rescues” JJ or convinces him to turn away: he’s going to have to figure that out on his own. And please, no one submit Sucre’s father…I want that left alone.

If you want to, say, have an OC who is the daughter of one of Jaune’s sisters, for instance, run it by me first: not all of them have kids.

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Basic info on your OC’s should include:

Name:

Gender:

Age: (corresponding to the timeline.)

Features: (Eye color, Skin color, etc. Even if you have an image, please include this.)

Kingdom of Origin:

(If Huntsmen) Academy of Origin, and by extension team.

Species: (Human or Faunus, and if Faunus what kind of Animal features do they have)

Category: (what organization, if any, are they part of, what role do they play, when did they join, etc.)


Active years: (Years will be broken into “Before “Ruby Rose” (BRR) as in Episode 1 of RWBY, and “After “Ruby Rose” (ARR)

For reference: Beacon’s fall to Cinder in the AU was 1 year ARR.

 Ruby was born 15 years BRR, Yang 17 years BRR, etc. The 2^nd great War breaks out 20 ARR, for framing.

(If Huntsman or other combatant) Weapon: (please be as descriptive as possible, and by all means provide images if you can.)

Relations: (if any) with the Main characters (see rules for how deep these can go) or families of their own.

Summary of the character’s life and activities: a quick Bio on who your character is, what their story is, their motivations, how they got wrapped up in events, etc.

Other: Notable features, Personal Quotes, opinions, etc. Feel free to get creative.

I will be posting basic data sheets on the categories, so if you have any questions, by all Means, feel free to ask! I’m here to help if you have any issues, questions or concerns.