Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27966940-20160712001717/@comment-4010415-20160725175751

I think "Makes people think of a color" means "Makes people, in general, think of a color", emphasis on people, not "This person had to do a search for anything related to the name Octavia and all they found was an old ship called the Octavius."

Nora = Eleanor or Nora Barlow Columbine flower works fine because if you look at a Nora Barlow Columbine flower, you're like "Oh, that flower is pink."

Ren = Japanese for lotus is fine because at least all we had to do was translate it to go "Oh, lotus, that's a flower that's often pink or white." I mean, most of us speak English.

It shouldn't be something quite so obscure as "I searched really hard and found this ship" or "I searched and found this one single thing that says 'a fish called Lisa'."

If we're going with Octavia = a ship called the Octavius, then I can say Octavia is actually supposed to allude to the color gray because there's an MLP character named Octavia Melody, and she's a gray pony with a dark gray mane. (And yes, her canon name is Octavia Melody, according to Hasbro's merchandise)