Talk:Neon Katt/@comment-101.99.200.202-20151220152354/@comment-101.99.200.202-20151224153150

The shopkeep is truly a joke character, so he need not be based on any myth, But the combatants in the tournament are supposed to be the best in the world (for students at least). It's foolish not to give them a solid foundation. As I said before it is an unspoken rule. Just as the rule for color, background characters don't always correlate with a legend or color. However, when a character is named, given speaking lines, and shown in action, there must be constistency and coherency. Recall that Cardin actually alluded to Henry Beaufort. Neon and Flynt are already more popular than him. If anyone should be written off as a one-shot character it would be Cardin. But you need to address the main issue. It is not that joke characters do not strictly follow the code, but the influx of similiar characters that may follow. It is already difficult for many fans to accept that some Disney characters are not synonymous with actual fairy tails. For example, Flynn Rider from Tangled is a modern character set in a classic tale but is not classical himself. I'm fine with the meme references, but Roosterteeth needs to clarify that this is a one-time thing, and that they are not abandoning the core influence for this show. Monty carefully fashioned his characters around fairy tales. It would be relatively simple to base characters on Lara Croft, Cloud Strife, and Deadpool. You can churn out characters like McDonald's burgers. I think RWBY characters should be like a handcrafter burger with premium, gourmet ingredients. But to answer your original, sarcastic question, the shopkeep is, of course, a shout out to the Cabbage Man, but he is representative of many minor roles in fairy tales, like a baker or a merchant. That could be why he has various jobs.