User blog comment:Hawkeye2701/Is our trivia becoming redundant?/@comment-4010415-20151204072016/@comment-109.182.178.144-20151204135318

The color naming rule and the character inspiration are two of the most important things when it comes to RWBY characters.

Trivia literally means insignificant or inessential matters, miscellaneous facts.

MetallicArcher has a great point.