Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3115535-20151022150055/@comment-192.0.53.32-20151027173644

Urano23 wrote: Except that Napoleon wasn't really short. And Achilles (who Pyrrha is based on) wasn't really invulnerable. He was just a badass. It doesn't matter if Napoleon was actually short or not. The characters in RWBY aren't based on real people but rather the legends they created. Do a google image search for "Napoleon Cartoon" and within the top 100 results count how many of times you see him drawn at average height. You could fit that number on one hand couldn't you? (Maybe two if you're being really liberal with your definition of "average height")

Phantomlink959 wrote: Why the hell do you want for this to be true so badly? It is utterly ridiculous! All of your evidence is circumstantial at best and ITL at worst Maybe for the same reason you want her to be based on the Cheshire Cat so badly. No, this is not   ITL as you like to call it. Monty loved clever word play. Pyrrha Nikos and Roman Torchwick are just a few examples of that. Would you really put it past him to change Neapolitan to Neopolitan just so he cleverly hide the name of the person she's partially inspired by? Her clothes look French, the parasol was invented in France, Parisian ice creameries are famous for their Neapolitan, she fights with a french sword and she shares the same characters in her name as that of a famous French conqueror who's most famous (albeit false) physical feature was his shortness. No, they're not HUGE connections but there are just too many of them to simply ignore and they're a hell of a lot more solid than the Cheshire Cat.Seriously! How did you end up with the Cheshire Cat of all characters? She has pink in her outfit and her power is she can disappear? That's it? That's ALL you've got? Disney's Cheshire cat was pink and purple and in the original novel he was just a striped tabby. Neo has neither purple nor stripes in her design. And you know who was also good at disappearing? Jack the Ripper, Houdini, JB Cooper, the list goes on!