User blog comment:DemonicsFire/RWBY Ships Hurt/Heal/@comment-27803627-20160510170832/@comment-26397825-20160510202815

The entire point of Lancaster as a ship name was it was an alternative to White Rose. It references the War of the Roses.

Personally I don't like it simply because it wasn't picked because 'knight + rose = lancaster', it was picked because 'weiss + ruby = white rose, but we wanna fight over who ruby is with so lets put her and jaune together and have a war of the roses'.

Also, way too much explanation needed for people who don't know their history that much.

Arse is amusing (and the proper way of spelling it, not the rude way). An alternative is Rune, which combines Ruby and Jaune.