Red vs. Blue
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Name: | Red vs. Blue |
Abbreviation(s): | RvB |
Creator: | Rooster Teeth Productions (Burnie Burns et al.) |
Date(s): | 2003-present |
Medium: | machinima web series |
Country of Origin: | United States |
External Links: | official site Wikipedia article |
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Red vs. Blue is a long-running machinima web series that is animated with the video game Halo.
Canon
It originally started out as an extremely cracky comedy series featuring two opposing military teams but it soon developed an overarching plot and emotional depth.
The series makes use of a bug in the game to show characters' heads nodding while speaking. The series is so popular that after the Halo game makers fixed the bug, they unfixed it again just for RvB.[citation needed]
Fandom
The Reconstruction, Recreation, and Revelation arcs as well as The Project Freelancer Saga are generally thought to have drawn in a lot of new fans to the fic writing side of fandom, although opinions differ on whether the "true" RvB is more focused on plot or humor. Fans who are intimidated by the length of the canon are sometimes advised to skip the first five seasons and start with Reconstruction, while other fans are vehemently against the idea.
Fanart is particularly popular in the fandom, presumably because artists enjoy coming up with different facecanons.
Pairings
According to AO3 tags, the most popular pairings in descending order of popularity are:
- Dexter Grif/Dick Simmons
- Lavernius Tucker/Agent Washington
- Agent Carolina/Agent York
- Felix/Locus
- Agent Maine/Agent Washington
- Leonard L. Church/Agent Texas
Example Fanworks
Meta
- RvB Meta Masterpost, On Dreamwidth, Archived Version by anneapocalypse
- On Rampancy, Archived Version by Artshifter
Fanart
- Tucker, Archived Version by zyca
- Fanarts by synnesai
- Fanarts by aromanticyork
Fanfiction
- The Long Road Home by ScribbleBoxFox
- Put My Guns in the Ground by saltsanford
- Murderer's Row by ViolentMedic
Resources
Archives & Fannish Links
- Red vs. Blue Fanfiction Archive
- Red vs. Blue on AO3
- Red vs. Blue on FFN
- Red vs. Blue on Reddit
- Red vs. Blue on TV Tropes
On Tumblr
On Dreamwidth
On LiveJournal
- rvb_slash
- red_vs_blue (Last updated on 12 March 2011)
- rvb_het (Last updated on 1 June 2012)
- kink meme at rolololo's livejournal (2008)
- blood_gulch - roleplay community active 2005-2006