User blog comment:KurosakiHisana/I'm kinda sad/@comment-24087318-20150220172855

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I think the word *must* and the line "Except Ozpin, because reasons" is more than enough against what you're trying to say.

Not to mention that, flat out, the Naming Rules are a core part of a RWBY OC that actually has them fit the world and its lore. Not following them would be like having a Lord of the Rings elf named Steve. Sounds off putting, right?

The whole controversy around having nicknames being used in place of the characters real name is essentially that it can be used in one of two ways to "dodge" the character having to follow the Naming Rules.

The first is that if their real name is a Color, let's use Red as the example, but they prefer to be called Andrew and everybody in their team and in media relating to them just calls him Andrew. This dodges the Color Naming Rules quite obviously, and very obnoxiously, and is used by people who simply have no disregard for the theming and name conventions Monty Oum himself gave us.

The second way to dodge it is to have their real name as whatever the person writing the character wants it to be, then shoehorning a color in by saying that's their nick-name, instead of their real name. Anne "Blue-Eyes" Johnson or something like that. That one's argueably worse, and completely disregards the explaination we were given as to why the Naming Rules are what they are, that revolutionaries named their children after color, and the trend continued for generations into the day that the series takes place in.

The only exception to this I could see, is that if somehow an OC was so old they existed long before people started doing this, and in that case you'd have to make an OC that's well over 80 years of age.

And to counter point your statement of, " I think it'd really broaden the horizons for the Wikia, too. Imagine how many more possibilties we'd have for writing and creating!" I have but one simple thing to say.

"Setting rules for yourself that are difficult to overcome is hard. But that's why we do it!"

- Monty Oum 1981 - 2015