Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-6975131-20140516205611/@comment-5726563-20140530011722

"I am the same person as complained about the color rule before. I apologize if I am being a nuisance here, but I felt a need to elaborate on why I have a problem with it. Adhering to the rule that every name must mean a color only forces shallowly named characters. It is my personal rule that every name I assign to any of my characters must be both meaningful and fitting. In order to decide on a name based on color, I have no choice but choose a neat-sounding but two-dimensional name at best. That being said, it is impossible for me to meet my own standards of quality while (forgive me if I sound rude) stooping to your arbitrary "color rule". In the end I always choose to follow my own rule, as it is my story; yet in return for striving for quality, my OC is rejected. It may be a helpful guideline, but it is an oppressive rule."

Not so much our rule as Monty's. He said this was the one rule for making RWBY characters, that they had to have a name that was a color, referenced a color, or made you think of a color. And honestly, with how broad that rules is, you can do it with almost anything. For instance, my name is Danam. Danam=Denim=Blue.