>>124370291Three POVs.
1. Team RWBY's: Try to keep them together as much as possible, just like Avatar and its protags. Nothing about getting separated for two volumes and each having their own separated storyline.
2. Jaune's team: male self-insert MC that actually grows and becomes stronger. Just play it safe and make him competent like one of those isekai or harem MCs. Not too OP nor weak. Becomes the leader of his own team.
3. Neo's: villain-antagonist side and comic relief pair with Roman. Down to earth thieves getting involved in half baked situations across different kingdoms while trying to become big in the underworld, getting hired or forced to help arc villains. Eventually they start getting along with the other POV protags and sympathetic antagonists, like Emerald and Mercury.
Volumes are different kingdoms, but each arc has a very distinct main villain or antagonist. It starts against Cinder, Adam and Raven, the Crown, and finally Ironwood. Imagine the Atlas military with tons of battle droids, mechs, and high-tech flying giant fortresses being the final boss. Penny's storyline is about an advanced prototype droid that eventually breaks free from Atlas's military and switches sides, since she gains free will and friendship bullcrap with Ruby across the series.
Team RWBY's POV is obviously top priority and the one with more screentime. No maidens, relics, nor Salem and Ozma. Grimm are your local fauna, sometimes enhanced or experimented on by Merlot, a recurring villain hired by Ironwood. Semblances and logic actually matter and play an important role in fights, especially in PvP.
Example: Neo vs. Emerald, round 1. The former loses due to the latter's seemingly more powerful illusion semblance.
Round 2: Neo allows several of her clones to be broken by Emerald, so that their broken aura shards all over the floor, allow her to pinpoint Emerald's real location. Plus, Neo closes her eyes to avoid being manipulated by Emerald's illusions.
