Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3146930-20140309012631/@comment-3146930-20140613142140

79.179.171.223 wrote: The name "Penny" is hard to work around according to your theory. For example, assume her last name was "Okio". Kinda makes it hard to see Penny as an allusion to anything else.

-Nathan J Xaxson

Hold on, give me a second and I will find an answer...(one quick internet search later).

Ok, so the penny is one of the US currencies available. Sewing needles are sometimes made using nickel and the nickel is also a US currency. Also, Penny and Sally both use 5 letters, both share a double letter in the middle, one vowel as the second letter, a consonant as the first, and a 'y' at the end.

On the flip side, names don't always allude the the characters the RWBY characters are based around. If you had never seen RWBY and I asked you what characters Ruby Rose, Lie Ren, or Pyrrha Nikos were based on, I don't think you could give me a correct answer.