Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-68.9.104.186-20150101031449/@comment-226878-20150624062644

Is that actually the terminology Rooster Teeth used: "based on"? Or did they simply call them allusions? If they didn't actually say based on, then you barely need a mild reference to allude to a character archetype.

I'm gonna start referring to the characters by their allusions in the following manner:

Ruby: The Little Red Riding Hood

Weiss: The Snow White

Blake: The Beauty And The Beast

Yang: The Goldilocks

So yeah, basically, adding "THE" to the obvious... and then...

Ozpin: The Wizard of Oz

Glynda: The Good Witch

Ironwood: The Tin Man

Qrow: The Scarecrow

Oobleck: The Doctor Seuss

Peter: The Young Hunter

Jaune: The Maid of Orleans

Nora: The God of Thunder (I always think of Zeus as the "God of Lightning" for difference-sake)

Pyrrha: The Invincible Warrior

Ren: The Steel Magnolia (I can't find any appropriately romantic epithets)

Cardin: The Bishop of Winchester

Russel: The God of Mischief (if I'm right that he alludes to Loki)

Dove: The Hero of Troy

Lark: The Mongol Khan

Sun: The Monkey King

Sage: The Story Teller

Neptune: The God of the Sea

Coco: The Nazi Fashionista

Velvet: The "DUH!"

Yatsuhashi: The Blind Minstrel

Cinder: The Cinderella

Mercury: The Messenger God

Emerald: The Arabian Thief

Roman: The Voice of Mischief

Neo: The Alice?

And now I've changed my mind. A lot of these are too longwinded and I'm too lazy to refer to them this way consistently.