Talk:Qrow Branwen/@comment-4555743-20171116223520/@comment-26397825-20171118041429

Tai is also a teacher at Signal and has been there longer than Qrow, but he's not a Wizard of Oz Character.

Combat Schools =/= Huntsmen Academies.

They like their themes when it comes to certain things. STRQ has a theme (though we don't know what it is yet), RWBY has a theme (fairytales), JNPR has a theme (genderbends of people who crossdressed), and so too do the Headmasters of the Academies (not the schools in general, but the Academies themselves) have a theme - Wizard of Oz characters.

You are basically saying "Oh look, this little rock is from the vegetable garden and these other rocks are from the pond, but I'm going to call them all the Pond Rocks anyway because I think the vegetable garden rock looks like them.

Characters can unintentionally draw parallels with other characters. Look at Neo and the Cheshire Cat, which everyone touted about for so long until we had direct confirmation from Grey that she is not the Cheshire Cat. Look at all the Dorothy parallels Ruby has, despite the fact that we know she does not allude to Dorothy (and in fact they have a Dorothy character already, who I am fairly certain is Oscar).

So while Qrow may have some parallels, he is not intended as the Scarecrow character. The theme they have running (and again, they really love their themes) points directly to the Headmaster of Shade being the Scarecrow Character.