Thread:Ekotek/@comment-10380701-20151102074300/@comment-27150319-20151102090629

I'm afraid I'm not going to be terribly helpful, but I'll try my best!

We came up with the designs before we went to RT, we worked on them together, but generall tackled our own characters individually. Our color scheme was based two fold on the fact that we adore halloween, and our initial team theme. During our visit to RT we were told that the team theme we pitched was already in use by a team that will appear in a later season, and so we could not use it (obviously I can't say what that is). Beacause of this, and some modeling technicalities, some very minimal changes were made to our designs. As of right now, it is unclear to us if  RT worked some other theme out or not, and everyone is so busy producing this season of RWBY that email reponses are very slow in coming - so I'm all for theories!

I belive it was Pat who actually came up with the intial idea for team NDGO long before we arrived, and RT was so enthused about it we went with the cute joke there. However, we each contributed to our character naming processes, offering a list of suggestions to RT for each of us pretty much by "here's a letter and here's your color" alone.

Again, this is in no way official, and I have to say that the overall feel of our costumes isn't very Grecian, but my personal favorite theory I've heard so far is that we're based on different goddesses, which I just find incredibly flattering, haha. (Nebula -> Artemis [both archers/night sky]) (Dew -> Eos [godess of the dawn/dew at dawn and wind]) (Gwen -> Persephone [first name means light or holy, and last means of darkness - which fits Persephone's story fairly well]) [Octavia - Athena or Hestia [Hestia for the emebers in a hearth or Athena because of battle and Octavia's name association with Gaius Octavius)

We never dreamed the RWBY fandom would like the characters we came up with nearly as much as people seem to but it really is thrilling  and I still feel like I might be dreaming tbh, so even if this is a one off, it is a dream come true already. (Though I would of course love to see more of NDGO)

And yes, any similarities between Octavia and Erza Scarlet are purely coincidntal on our end, I of course can't speak for RT, but I know Claire did not have her im mind while she was designing.