Board Thread:FAQs/@comment-98.253.137.4-20180129102813/@comment-25936766-20180129123824

Since Volume 1 it's been known characters could allude to things aside from Fairy Tales. JNPR is the perfect example:

Jaune > Jeanne D'Arc > Historical Figure

Pyrrha > Achilles > Greek Mythology

Nora > Thor > Norse Mythology

Ren > Mulan > Chinese Legends

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Now, as for Tyrian and Ilia....no one knows what they allude to exactly because the writers never bother to answer questions as simple as these, nor do they bother to make their allusions more obvious. The only exception was Leo being the Cowardly Lion.

Not that it matters much, though, since their allusions have affected the characters about as much as the color of Miles's hair has affected them.

They're really only there for small plot-unimportant references and design-inspiration, and even the latter isn't always the case (SSSN's design is based on a K-Pop band despite their allusions to Sun Wukong and Neptune, among others).