Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3257939-20131111020445/@comment-24198837-20131128015707

Flashfire212 wrote:

WC-83 wrote: her last name doesnt have any relation to semblance des it. QFT. The theory that characters receive their surname for their Semblance is kinda pointless when you look at the other revealed abilities. Nikos has nothing to do with magnetism, and I don't know how Schnee (German for snow) has anything to do with glyphs. I never said all characters got their names that way, but a Rose having a Rose Semblance is too big of a coincidence for me to ignore. Now, she could be keeping tons of roses on her dress or cloak the entire time... but does that really make sense? I mean, I know she likes roses, but that's a little overboard.

Maybe Ruby's name is actually Ruby Xio Long, but everyone calls her Rose because it sounds better and fits her Semblance. Maybe she changed her last name. People can do that, you know. Maybe Ruby is Yang's half-sister. Point is, theres a whole host of reasons why Ruby could be Yang's biological sister without sharing a last name.