Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25250830-20140905030244/@comment-2.31.7.132-20140906174003

I was thinking something similar to BenRG BenRG wrote: I'm still not convinced that surnames are automatically inherited on Remnant. At a certain age a child got to choose there own name. The main reason for this is that nobody seems interested in why two sisters have completely different names. We can guess Ruby chose her mothers name both in honour of her memory and as a sign she wants to follow in her footsteps. Maybe that was why when she was at he grave in the trailer had the cross on the belt and not her rose symbol. It was her making the choice. Weiss has her fathers and grandfathers name as a sign she is the heiress. Juan seems to have chosen a name not associated with has ancestors as people don't appear to recognise the name and also as he is known to be hiding his symbol which could be an indication that his family is well known.

Part of the problem is that so few families have been introduced. We have only heard about the Schnee family and Ruby and Yangs family. We don't know what Ruby and Yangs farther is called nor Yangs real mother nor know Qrow's full name. We have only herd Weiss refer to her farther and grandfather and the receptionist mention Winter and we don't know if Winter actually has Schnee in her name.