Talk:Color Naming Rule/@comment-18396318-20150912203930/@comment-18396318-20150912235823

Arslan really doesn't double up on the criteria, though. It doesn't say anywhere that you can follow a chain of the rules in order to make it work, and there aren't any characters that it's actually necessary for. "Altan" has it covered.

I only suggest that we try to limit ourselves to the most obvious answer because otherwise, this is what we end up with. Every name, even in the real world, has a source. That name, be it from another language or not, means something. If you take that name, translate it, and look for the meaning, you can probably associate it to an object. And given the subjectivity of the "evocative" rule, you can then claim that object reminds you of a colour.

Two names off the top of my head: David and Patricia. David means King, and royalty is associated with the colour purple. Patricia comes from Latin "patricius," meaning nobility. Again, royalty and purple. If we use this kind of logic, the rule becomes meaningless because everything can be made to mean a colour. That's not even a hypothetical - we already did it with Ozpin.