Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-65.64.177.27-20130420014647/@comment-7713314-20130420212407

Monty specificly states in an interview that the 'colors' rules are for names. A character's name has to reference a color in some way: Ruby as in ruby red; Wiess is German for white; Blake is thought to be derived from the old English word "blac", a nickname for someone who had dark hair or skin, or from "blaac", a nickname for someone with pale hair or skin. In the case of this Black, its a combo of both with pale skin and dark hair; Adam's name is being considered as a play on word's for 'adom', which is red in Hebrew.

Next was that each team name must be made up of each teammate's color and either spell out or make the audience think of a color itself. Ex: 'RWBY' sounds like ruby, and is spelt with each girl's color.