Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-74.101.236.56-20170321065847/@comment-26397825-20170701080153

68.194.1.35 wrote:

I thought Pyrrha refered to Pyrrhic, i.e. when a victory has to great of a cost to be considered worthwhile. That is what makes sense since she died and activated Ruby's silver eyed powers to win the Battle for Beacon. When I first checked the wiki it said his name meant Port as in door and not Port as in red wine. Also, Peter as stone, really? Stones can be any color (Kind of like how Rubiss are stones that are red, and Emeralds are stones that are green.) Same thing with Velvet it can be any color. (although having a last name like Scarletina makes the name thing a non-issue) It seems to be that anything that IS a color works for the name rule. That narrows down the list of names people can have to EVERY SINGLE THING ON EARTH. Also, Glynda Goodwitch, James Ironwood, Bartholomew Ooblelck, and Taiyang Xiao Long have nothing to do with color. (Taiyang is a point on the temple where you would stick a needle during acupuncture, and Oobleck only means green if you read Dr. Suess which, like Weiss' name, dosen't exist on their world.) When someone says 'it's made of stone', the colour that typically comes to mind is grey. In fact, there is a shade of grey specifically known as stone grey.

Glynda means fair, as in fair skinned or fair haired, which brings to mind cream/white and light yellow.

Ironwood is an actual tree, which brings to mind brown and green, and iron itself is a metal that is black.

Taiyang actually means the exact same as Yang's - Tai simply means elder/greater, so his name is 'elder/greater little sun dragon' as opposed to Yang's 'little sun dragon', which evokes the colour yellow because of the sun aspect.

I'll give you Oobleck though.