Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26281589-20131112205848/@comment-226878-20140906050111

IamThorn wrote: Mercen-X wrote: I'm gonna say it again: Yang has blonde hair. Twilight Princess has dark hair (thus I call her Raven as suggested by IamThorn, making her Qrow's sister). I was calling Her father Raven, but Qrow and Raven are siblings, that's all I can claim. I only meant to suggest you pointed out the name.

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I don't need the idea "montyoum" was really Monty to hold weight with anyone. Based on the information we have, the name fits, so I'm sticking with it. Plus, I believe it was really Monty which only further strengthens my resolve. It was IamThorn who originally suggested QRTS and TRQS and he had no idea that anyone thought one of the team member's names might start with a T. There aren't a lot of colors that come quickly to mind that have Q and S in them... Sequoia..? (if the rule regarding no vowels is a real thing then that one is disqualified). I can't think of another at the moment.

"montyoum" only made edits to the tropes WMG at five points in time on November 10th of last year all within the span of 10 minutes. Well, there are only three edits that can be traced back to their source (Taiyang by proxy as it's not hard to guess what the context there was). The other two are denials that Ruby has Aspergers and that the sisters are adoptive. A lot of "montyoum's" responses were in the negative though there were some "close" and at least one "yes". Since the tropes history pages don't preserve the original context in which the edits occur, I couldn't tell you what those responses were in reply to.

But there is, in fact, a very simple way to find out if it was really Monty. Two actually. If Taiyang turns out to be the name of Yang's father, then it was really Monty Oum. There's no such thing as coincidences. The other option is to ask him directly the next time he gives an interview: "Have you ever edited at tvtropes.org as montyoum?" Apparently, the divide between believes is so sharp there is no room for question. There are no doubters, just those who either believe it was really him and those who don't. A doubter would have had the sense to ask the question by now.