Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-294840-20170731160459/@comment-4010415-20170731182443

The big thing is that we can't really assume what color a character's hair is based on what color their World of Remnant silhouette is, especially since the silhouettes' colors tend to align more with the character's color theme. One exception is the beginning of WoR: Aura just because they showed those three characters' (Ren, Ruby, Sun) Aura colors, which are actually the same as their theme colors, so they needed to make the silhouettes black so we could still see them when it showed their Aura.

Throughout World of Remnant,


 * Ruby appears as a red silhouette because her name points to red, and her color theme is red.


 * Weiss appears as white, often with a tinge of light blue, because her color theme is white and icy shades of blue. Her name, through both Weiss and Schnee, points to white. She often gets icy blue in her color scheme because of her connection with snow or ice.


 * Blake appears with sort of a mix of black and purple, whether a gradient of black-and-purple or a dark, dull purple that is almost like black. Her color theme is black and purple because of her name. Blake is Old English for black. The Atropa belladonna, which her last name refers to, has purple flowers and poisonous berries that turn black when ripe.


 * Yang appears as yellow because her first name points to yellow, through translating to "Sun". Our sun is a yellow star and is often depicted as yellow.


 * Glynda appears as purple... because, for some reason, her theme color is purple, and so is her Aura. I don't know why.


 * Ironwood has appeared as whatever colors are being used to represent Atlas.


 * Jacques appearing as mostly white makes sense, as his original surname, Gele, means Frost, which brings to mind a coating of white ice crystals.


 * The kingdoms' leaders in WoR: The Great War were colored the way they were because of their associations with their own kingdoms - Vale's color is green, Mantle's/Atlas' color is white, Mistral's color is light blue, and Vacuo's color is orange.

It's that kind of thing. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang's hair colors happen to mostly line up with their color themes, but then we have Glynda popping up as a purple silhouette and Blake having purple in her silhouettes, plus the fact that Ruby's hair is actually a black-to-red gradient, rather than outright red.