Talk:Blake Belladonna/@comment-128.151.150.17-20170209051723/@comment-4010415-20170527111312

In that Search and Destroy screenshot, that energy is from her clone, not from her slashing the Beowolf. You can tell if you watch that part at 0.25 speed on Youtube. She hadn't even slashed yet when that happened.

Purple kinda makes sense because her name points to two colors. Blake means black in Old English, while Belladonna points to both black and purple through the deadly nightshade plant. Black because the berries can be black, purple because the berries can be deep purple and the flowers are light purple.

The characters' Aura colors don't always match up with their names anyway. Jaune's name points to yellow, yet he has white Aura (indicated by him glowing white when Pyrrha unlocks his Aura). Qrow's name points to black, yet his Aura is red (indicated when Tyrian broke his Aura).

I get the feeling that Monty, Miles, and Kerry had decided that they didn't want any of the characters to have black Aura. So, even though Blake is the "Black" part of RWBY, they gave her light purple Aura to match the light purple of nightshade flowers instead.