Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36356394-20180727181116/@comment-24388371-20190803015333

Anzan wrote: Yeah, I agree on that. Plus, it’s not the first time a Cure’s actual color doesn’t always line up with her official one. The literally named Cure Black is classified as a Pink, the mostly pink Shiny Luminous is a Yellow, Sunshine and Moonlight were explicitly referred to as Gold and Silver respectively in HeartCatch but are officially Yellow and Purple, and the clearly orange Cure Sunny is a Red.

Though in those cases I can at least see where they’re coming from but the only green on Parfait’s uniform is around the sash on her midsection while as mentioned the main suit is more teal/rainbow colored.

Like you said though, Ciel does tend to wear green a lot while in civilian form so that’s probably the reason. There are two rules at play when it came to color categorizing the Cures in seasons after Max Heart, and those rules are retroactively applied to the old show resulting in this color "mismatch":


 * Lead Cures are always pink. Since Cure Black is the lead of Futari Wa and even more so in Max Heart, and thankfully her sub color in pink, she get categorized as a pink Cure for her seasons. We even got a canonical list of pink Cures in Hugtto ep. 37 and Black is among them.
 * No two Cures from the same season can ever have the same color categorization. When Shiny Luminous is introduced her season already has an established pink Cure in Black, so her color category have to go with the most prominent unused color in her design, which is yellow from her big blonde hair.

Incidentally Cure White is also often categorized using her sub color as a blue Cure, especially in her personality.

As of Ciel, it is the second rule at play again, When she joined the team there are already red, yellow, blue, red and purple Cures, so her color categorization has to go with the next most prominent color in her design, this time the patch of green in her rainbow-themed skirt (also her eyes.)