For their fairytales, I hopefully made it clear for most of them. But I’ll state it outright for clarity’s sake.

Pearl is based off of Captain Ahab of Moby Dick. I think it might be the most off pick out of all of them. I wanted to create a character around revenge and he was the perfect model, especially with his obsession with a beast.

Rumo is obviously based off of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Christmas tales (in my opinion, I haven’t read in detail many other RWBY OCs) are kind of untapped for character potential.

Pahi is the little match girl. It’s actually why her weapon is named Heera (Diamond), because Diamond match packs? Get it? It also informed her semblance, it’s not her grandmother, but her moms good enough in this case. We’ll just say her mom takes after her grandmother a lot .

Lilac is based on Rapunzel which is definitely a tale that has been done a lot, but it doesn’t matter who did it first as long as it’s good right?

and slate as briefly mentioned in Pearl’s backstory is going to be based off of George Washington. His entire team is going to be based off of American legend hence the title Stripe.