Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20160730160356/@comment-25936766-20160826221310

So, I've been thinking. I know I told Kirito once or twice that naming an OC after a freaking City was too much of a stretch, unless the city was named after something that fits CNR (which granted, was the case back then) or famous for something that does (Venice and it's water canals). My reasoning back then was that "the city does not exist in Remnant, so it makes no sense to fit In-Universe"...

...but then I realized later, we do have examples of names that fit CNR out-of-Universe, but in a way that makes no sense in-universe. Among them:

1) Nora, named after the very pink Nora Barlow Columbine. Now, I would not be surprised if Columbines exist in Remnant. I would not mind much if the Nora Barlow Columbine itself existed in Remnant as well. But the problem is: it's named after a person, a real-life person. Nora Barlow, with who Nora shares the first name.

I do find it hard to believe that a person could be named after a plant that itself was named after a person that, in-universe, never existed, and thus, there was no Nora Barlow to name the plant after.

2) Neptune, who fits CNR in 2 ways: First, the blue planet, which obviously doesn't exist in Remnant's star system. And second, the Roman God of the Sea, from a mythology that does not exist in Remnant. Don't try to bring it's etymology either; it is unknown what exactly is the etymology of his name, and such a thing has been disputed multiple times, with multiple propositions here and there, some of which have also been rejected for different reasons.

3) Oobleck, whose full name alludes to Bartholomew and the Oobleck, fitting CNR cause the epynomious Oobleck in the book was green. The reason this makes no sense in-universe is obvious: Dr. Seuss and the book don't exist in Remnant. At most, they have a Remnantish version of the story, with a different title and elements even if the general premise stays the same, as with Jekyll and Hyde, though we don't have much reason to assume this Remnantish version would also have that title or the same character names.

4) Marcus Black, same case as Neptune, planet and god "Mars" does not exist in Remnant.

And in a much more minor scale, Sage, Lisa and some others who fit CNR through a real-life species (whose existence in Remnant would be purely hypothetical at best, at least when refering to more specific species).

While one could make the case that this does not matter with Marcus and Neptune because they can still fit CNR through the family name (Black=Black, Vasillias can mean King, Emperor, both of which bring to mind royal colours like Purple, Gold and Silver), the same cannot be said about Nora, since Valkyrie itself does not fit CNR, not even in imagery.

So in the end, I've decided on this headcanon: The color name must only fit CNR out-of-universe, even if it doesn't make sense in-universe. In which case then I guess OCs could indeed be named after cities and such.......if they still fit CNR in some way at least. (For example, you say Antartica, I think of cold snow and ice everywhere).