Talk:Tyrian Callows/@comment-25405817-20170209001410/@comment-30566621-20170617015508

Um...what? Since when were the names for most of the supporting characters important? All of them only serve to give us a little more fun information about the characters through making references.

Ruby/Summer ROSE: Roses are red.

Weiss/Wheatley/Jacques SCHNEE: Snow is white.

Blake/Kali/Ghira BELLADONNA: "Belle" means beauty, "Donna" means gift. Belladonna is also a poisonous plant.

Yang/Taiyang XIAO LONG: Dragons breathe fire.

Jaune ARC: Jeanne d'Arc was a historical character who died by fire.

Pyrrha NIKOS: Nike was the Greek goddess of victory (both martial and athletic).

Lie REN: Lotuses are a Japanese symbol of peacefulness.

Nora VALKYRIE: The Valkyries were female Norse warriors who helped guide the souls of the dead to Valhalla.

Qrow/Raven BRANWEN: Branwen was an ancient Celtic queen of lore and also means "blessed white crow/raven."

Glynda GOODWYTCH: Glinda/Galinda was the good witch of the North in the Oz series.

James IRONWOOD: The Tin Man was a metallic, formerly human character in the Oz series.

Sun WUKONG: Sun Wukong was a monkey god in Chinese legends.

Neptune VASILIAS: Neptune was the Roman god (the king) who ruled the sea.

Scarlet DAVID: Peter Pan and Captian Hook are both characters from David Barrie's Peter Pan series.

Sage ANAYA: His fighting style seems to be intended to be a powerful, tanky, advancing frontliner.

Penny POLENDINA: Pinnochio's maker/father was Geppetto Polendina.

Ciel SOLEIL: The Sun traverses through the blue sky.

Literally all the surnames do is give us interesting references. All of the familial connections could be done without requiring surnames to be dropped, and it's really only in the Rose-Xiao Long-Branwen and Schnee families that the surnames have had real significance. Just because not every character immediately has a surname doesn't signify poor writing. A lot of the characters are only getting surnames as fun little tidbits or as indications that they may be of importance later. Sage and Scarlet weren't actually all that hyped (we only got oblique name drops in Vol 2, for heck's sake). I don't even really think that the writers are/were trying to make things reveals so much as character/world building drops. Surnames are a minor point, and are in no way important.