Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26281589-20131112205848/@comment-226878-20140929193427

129.93.4.33 wrote: JNPR is from Jaune, Nora, Pyrhha, and Ren's name, so every member contributes to the team name. Qrow's team consisted of himself, Taiyang, Summer, and (yang's mom). So as of now QRTS sounds like a plausible name. To mind that team CRDL is named after a bird, so not every team must be color named. Why bother mentioning this? Of course every member contributes to the team name, but by that logic, TRQS works just as well, because it has the same letters. QRTS works better because it follows a precedent set by JNPR which is that it starts with two letters from the leader's name: J and N. QRTS would make sense as a team name only if Qrow was the leader because the first two letters are also found in his name: Q and R. Team CRDL is the same only it possesses a third letter from leader Cardin's name C, R, and D. And Cardinal is a color: red.

Contrarily, if I'm right that Yang's mom is named Yue, then that would make the team name QYTS, which doesn't make sense as anything. So TQYS would make more sense as it can be pronounced as tuk-wys, close enough to turquoise.

Quartz most common color is... whitish transparency: meaning it's generally see-through, and will not display specifically-colored light through refraction (as a ruby would display red light). Citrine is yellow, Rose is pink, Amethyst is purple... Onyx in black, while not the most commonly occurring, is still the most well-known variety, and yes, the like three others I mentioned, it is a type of quartz.