Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-49.144.79.207-20130629150528

So Monty said that the names of the characters in the series will all have to do with a color in some way, and this shows in the cases of Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Adam and Miltia. The 'color' of their names are reflected in their design with either their hair (Yang, Adam), clothes (Miltia, Ruby) or both (Weiss, Blake). There are two characters so far without names relevant to a color: Melanie and Junior. I'm aware that the approaching premiere of the series may introduce new characters with similar naming issues, but it's not here yet, so I'm typing this out anyway.

On Melanie, it's evident in her design and the fact that she was based on an early version of Weiss that her color seems to be a form of white with a green tint. (According to Wikipedia, mint is much greener, so it's not really mint.) Her surname, 'Malachite,' refers to green, and it's been pointed out that it may refer to the twins' shared eye colors. Her first name, however, means 'dark'.

Junior's name obviously has no real color associated with it. There's a lot of black in his design, though, but said design is also mundane compared to the characters and wearing any color aside from black might just look funny.

It's possible that Melanie, Miltia and Junior's design colors were only chosen to fit with the colors in the club, but with that reasoning, Melanie's design color could've been blackish rather than white to fit with her name. It's also (and more) possible that the colors of the club and Melanie, Miltia and Junior's designs were supposed to allude (for lack of a better word) to the colors of the previous trailers, as well as the characters in them. To elaborate:

Ruby (Red), Weiss (White), and Blake (Black) were introduced in that order, while Miltia (Red), Melanie (White) and Junior (Black) were defeated in that order. Red, White and Black.

Junior's colorless name may be referencing the fact that black is the absence of color rather than a color itself, which would be explanation enough. Melanie's name, however, directly contrasts with her own color. I wouldn't mind this at all if it weren't for the fact that everyone else's names seemed so clever and well thought-out, and Miltia is among them. I'm convinced that this isn't something Monty would just overlook, so there might be some sort of secret meaning or foreshadowing with their names. Especially since Melanie's name does refer to a color, just not her own.

I'm guessing that Melanie will undergo some sort of plot-relevant design change in the series that will make her name appropriate somehow. Her apparently arrogant attitude contrasts with Miltia's meek and mild-mannered demeanor. So if you ask me which of the characters would most likely get some sort of design revamp after a big plot-important, character-changing event, I'd say it would be Adam. Then I would say Melanie'd also be a candidate, because she seems to have the confidence to go against any of Junior's orders if she cared enough. 'Teaching Yang a lesson' seemed to have been her decision, implying that she at least has the initiative to do something Junior did't say anything about. Miltia, meanwhile, just went along with everything. (Though she happened to be wearing her claws for some reason.)

As for Junior, he seems to know a lot, according to Yang, anyway. Thanks to that, he strikes me as the type who knows a bunch of the secrets in the series. 'Junior' could just be an alias he picked out because it was unnotable, or notable in a way that make people unsuspecting. Whatever the case, Junior seems to be the kind of character to have a fake name, and Junior sounds fake enough to me. Yang did say he seemed a little old to have a name like that.

Also, I'd just like to mention that since the more elaborately-designed characters (at least) have fairy tale inspirations, the Malachite twins may draw inpiration from 'Snow-White and Rose-Red,' though the personalities seemed to have been swapped between characters. It's probably just an interesting coincidence.

So, this is more of a 'I noticed some stuff' post than a 'I have an idea' post, but the part of it that actually is speculation puts it in the speculation category.  