User blog comment:DearlySkies/Taking Requests/@comment-25570140-20141214013456/@comment-25555436-20141214133140

@Sorrow

It's just that it's "Red". There's no originality there, you just grabbed a color and put it there. Not a color in another language, not something that sounds or reminds of a color, just literally the color. It's like you didn't even care.

I don't mind that his first name is in english and his last name in chinese. But Red? You can do much better than that, I'm sure.

@Synchropip

Actually, that was an assumption by the admins when they made the rules. Monty's original rules don't say that the name that alludes to a color had to be the first name necesarily, no. He did say, however, that the Team's acronym had to be formed with the first names, and that they had to allude to a color in some way.

And it's not hard to see, even excluding characters like Ozpin, even Monty doesn't always follow it to the letter:

-CRDL: C of Cardin (first name), R of Russel (first name), D of Dove (first name), L of Lark (Last name).

However, since so far every character in the show, with very few exceptions like Velvet (Velvet does not allude to a specific color or colors. Scarlatina, however, alludes to Scarlet), had first names that alluded to a color, and not always a last name that did, I'm not surprised the admins or whoever put the rules here thought that it had to be the 1st name.