#the second reference palettes they got in 2.0 were K/DA

[sir-adamus]

https://www.tumblr.com/sir-adamus/751524665592365056/i-just-remembered-one-of-neos-13-palette-in

I wonder if Miles and Kerry just happened to "suggest" to BlazBlue's devs (IIRC one was a big fan of RWBY) to include a costume referencing the Cheshire Cat.

yeah Mori, the creative lead on Blazblue is a fan of the show (he'd already included references to RWBY in the final game of the series, Central Fiction, with Es, Izayoi, Taokaka and Bullet getting Team RWBY's palettes, which carried over into Es and Izayoi's palettes for BBTAG), and likewise Monty was a fan of BlazBlue (the way Penny fights, while a carryover from Monty's Dead Fantasy with how he was going to have Naminé fight, is a reference to the way the Prime Field Devices, Nu, Mu and Lambda, fight. Nu also got Penny as one of her palettes in BBTAG)

from what i remember, Neo's presence in the 2.0 update (because of how long it took to develop the moveset and sprites for each character, only two characters in that update didn't have pre-existing kit and had to be made from scratch, which is why RWBY only got five representatives overall) was suggested specifically because of her existing popularity, her illusion-based kit offering interesting gameplay options and that she was being reintroduced in the show at the time they were working on the update (so it was before volume 6 was released, even though we didn't get her in the game until midway through volume 7 because of how long that development cycle was - it's also why her Beacon arc attire is implied to be an illusion given one of her outros has her drop it for her current look). given that time scale, it is possible that the CRWBY made the suggestion for the Cheshire Cat to be a reference palette once Miles, Kerry, Eddy and Kiersi had a better idea of how the Atlas arc was gonna shake out and who was going to end up in the Ever After, however it's also equally likely it was just a massive coincidence because the Cheshire Cat was a regular fan-suggestion as her allusion at the time

[hubakon1368]

#like for the record RWBY's original reference palettes are either their moms (Ruby and Yang) or their fairytale allusions (Weiss and Blake) #the second reference palettes they got in 2.0 were K/DA #and Neo's second reference palette is either Phoenix Wright or Pepsi #so honestly it's a coin flip

Preserving @sir-adamus' tags.

https://www.tumblr.com/sir-adamus/751524665592365056/i-just-remembered-one-of-neos-13-palette-in

I wonder if Miles and Kerry just happened to "suggest" to BlazBlue's devs (IIRC one was a big fan of RWBY) to include a costume referencing the Cheshire Cat.

yeah Mori, the creative lead on Blazblue is a fan of the show (he'd already included references to RWBY in the final game of the series, Central Fiction, with Es, Izayoi, Taokaka and Bullet getting Team RWBY's palettes, which carried over into Es and Izayoi's palettes for BBTAG), and likewise Monty was a fan of BlazBlue (the way Penny fights, while a carryover from Monty's Dead Fantasy with how he was going to have Naminé fight, is a reference to the way the Prime Field Devices, Nu, Mu and Lambda, fight. Nu also got Penny as one of her palettes in BBTAG)

from what i remember, Neo's presence in the 2.0 update (because of how long it took to develop the moveset and sprites for each character, only two characters in that update didn't have pre-existing kit and had to be made from scratch, which is why RWBY only got five representatives overall) was suggested specifically because of her existing popularity, her illusion-based kit offering interesting gameplay options and that she was being reintroduced in the show at the time they were working on the update (so it was before volume 6 was released, even though we didn't get her in the game until midway through volume 7 because of how long that development cycle was - it's also why her Beacon arc attire is implied to be an illusion given one of her outros has her drop it for her current look). given that time scale, it is possible that the CRWBY made the suggestion for the Cheshire Cat to be a reference palette once Miles, Kerry, Eddy and Kiersi had a better idea of how the Atlas arc was gonna shake out and who was going to end up in the Ever After, however it's also equally likely it was just a massive coincidence because the Cheshire Cat was a regular fan-suggestion as her allusion at the time