Char Frolen

@AgentEagleIsGone I’ll be honest, power scaling is a lazy way to denote power to characters. It’s easy, exploitable, and sadly it taints whatever story it’s implemented in. The issue being power creep, the introduction of new has to be stronger than the previous. When building proper power scaling mechanics, a lot of factors have to be carefully considered.
            
            Scale of Destruction, Scale of Effect, Scale of Feat, etc. you get the picture. The trick to managing proper power scaling is have a definitive ceiling, and measure how the protagonist will reach that ceiling. My favorite example of this was a manga called History’s strongest Disciple Kenichi.
            
            The main character is set up from the get go that he has absolutely no amount of talent when it comes to marital arts. His own masters repeatedly tell him that if they trained someone with a scrap of more talent than him, they would be way stronger than him.
            
            What he does have is a drive to work hard. Anyway, one of his masters is the literal strongest man in the world The invincible Superman Furinji Hayato. 
            
            Furinji Hayato is the ceiling Kenichi has to get to. Anything under that ceiling is a level Kenichi has to overcome. Point being Furinji Hayato was the first master Kenichi met before he began his journey. The story introduced the ceiling (Hayato) and the floor(Kenichi). So long as everything is contained within that space, powerscaling can be managed properly.
            
            However it’s not something I recommend, I gave that example because it can be done, but more often than not power scaling is just plain annoying.

@FrolenZan True.

@farmerabe nothing wrong with that.

@FrolenZan But at that point, since the Blacksmith is connected to the tree, wouldn't that just be akin to Mundus killing the King of Hell and usurping that title for his own?

@FrolenZan Thanks.

@farmerabe sure, you can count on that.

@FrolenZan In any case, feel free to be brutally honest with how well or poorly I handled the chapter when I get it out.

@AgentEagleIsGone Depends, you’d have to alter her back story. Abe is right however, if you do too much she won’t be Blake. The Best you can do is justify her changes, and that starts with her backstory.
            
            Take the traits you want to instill in her, and craft an explanation as to why she is the way she is. You don’t need to show her back story to the audience. In fact, keep it to yourself and use it to guide her writing.
            
            It also depends on what kind of story you’re planning to tell with her.

@FrolenZan And people wonder why I use Adam to address the racism subplot.

@AgentEagleIsGone Anytime. I’ll leave you with this. Ghira doesn’t necessarily need to die for Blake to learn a lesson, but it’s more plot significance and tragic for the story. Blake is literally the only character in team RWBY who’s never suffered. She is so spoiled that she’s taken for granted how blessed she is. 
            
            Ruby and Yang lost Summer, and Yang had to practically raise Ruby when her father was broken. Yang was abandoned by Raven. Weiss came from a household so toxic her own father treats his family like a monetary asset, Her mother a neglectful drunk, her sister left her to join the military, and her brother is left to the mercy of her Father. Nora and Ren are Orphans, Pyrrha has had her life stolen by publicity and celebrity life, and Jaune had to break away from his family because they had no hope in him (mind you this is speculation, but he was desperate enough to run away because he desperately wanted to achieve his dream). While his choices weren’t smart, his desire to help all people is what endears him to so many fans.
            
            What the hell did Blake suffer through that wasn’t her own choice. Both her parents are alive, they own a mansion in a tropical island, her father is the chieftain, the rebel group she joined, to support Faunus rights of course, but her parents had that handled. Stayed when they became extreme against her parents warnings. Ran away when things started getting too real. Yet constantly berates the Fang who actually suffered, and scolds the humans who’ve been hurt by the fang.

@FrolenZan I know, right?

@farmerabe that’s ultimately what angers me about bumblebee. That just because they’re lesbians is all the reason to put them together. That girls just can’t be friends without major sexual tension, or that Lesbian or not a women is more than just their sexuality.

@FrolenZan Again, well said.
            
            It's like being the same gender somehow makes a relationship good, despite its many, MANY flaws these days...

@FrolenZan Yep.
            
            Something needs to shatter this viewpoint, and while Ghira's death is not required, it DOES take a pretty big sledgehammer to Blake's worldview.

@farmerabe Like we stated before, Ghiras death isn't necessary, but it's a perfect catalyst to shift Blake's moronic sense of thinking. She's never suffered significant lost, she constantly runs away from her problems, and when her stance is questioned, it's F everybody else I'm right you're wrong. 
            
            For goodness sake, she called the white fang misguided despite all the terrorist attacks. Not because she cares about the faunus, but because admitting that the white fang are monsters, is admitting that she as an ex fang was just as much a monster as well.

@FrolenZan Well said, man.