Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20151020211700/@comment-26397825-20151102100910

They still follow the CNR because they allude to a colour somehow. Nora is named for a type of flower, which is pink. A lotus is generally pink. Yang means sun, which ours is yellow. Cardin is named for the Cardinal, a bird of which the male variety have red feathers. Neptune is named for the god of the sea, which is blue. That's point point of CNR - to associate a colour with the name.

Perhaps you should reread the rule.

It's word of god, from the creator himself. All RWBY OC's should follow this rule. You can't just not follow it because you don't want to - it's important in-universe because of the Individual Rights Revolution, which was why parents now name their children after colours somehow.

Sure, you don't have to follow it. But you should know at the very least that your characters will stand out in any RWBY setting for not following it, and anyone who knows of it will automatically ask "Why doesn't your character follow CNR?"