Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-50.43.20.122-20160405063923/@comment-24113789-20160407075730

Yes, well, like I said in my previous post, I'm arguing multiple classic tale references for these characters. So Nora is Thor and the Queen of Hearts; Pyrrha is Achilles and Pyrrhus of Epirus; Yang is Goldilocks and King Midas. Obviously their main matches that we've all agreed upon is the stronger allusion, but the other references are still there.

Nora is "queen of the castle", and two of her outfits as well as her bullets have hearts on them.

"Nikos" translates to "victory", thus "Pyrrhic victory"; which is a direct reference to Pyrrhus of Epirus.

"With a touch of my hand, I will turn your life to gold." Pretty obvious reference to King Midas.

What is comes down to is that RWBY tends to allude to faerie tales, etc. in general; so sometimes we just get little bonus references, and these are some examples.