Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-9464517-20150620115732

Lauren Darkmore wrote: Spec, you realise Ozpin had a whole speach in Vol 2 about the Colour naming rule, it was after a war or something and everyone decided to came their childeren after colours to keep the world bright. Or something like that. So that square on your bingo board is N/A Insufficient. I want to know more. How is this rule enforced? Why is this rule enforced, apart from dumbass sentimental reasons? How, if German and French were never invented in Remnant, do the words "Jaune" and "Weiss" even exist? How, if Dr Seuss does not exist in Remnant, is "Bartholomew Oobleck" related to a colour in any way whatsoever? And, for that matter, how are "Peter Port" and "Glynda Goodwitch" related to colours in Remnant (or indeed in real life either)? Surely, as members of the first or second generation to be born after the war, they would be MOST likely to follow this colour naming rule! Are there protests against this sort of rule? Are children with non-colour-related names forced to change their names?

Having many characters' names being related to colours that we in the real world understand and appreciate is one thing, but to spring on us that the people within the universe itself are aware of and widely practise this rule, despite numerous names that have fuck-all to do with colours in their universe (and some that have fuck-all to do with colours in our universe to for that matter), is ludicrous. At the moment, it looks like the rule was not well-thought through, so I believe further in-universe clarification is required. However, since Ozpin has already delivered a lengthy speech regarding the rule, I feel like Miles and Kerry will be reluctant to spend much more time dwelling on the specifics of it in the next volume, meaning my inclusion of that as a square on my RWBYngo card was very much justified IMO.