Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25135203-20160220223846

Something I noticed. Please hear out the crazy hypothesis:

Monty confirmed that Ruby and Yang are blood-related, but if memory serves he never actually confirmed how. Ruby is very obviously Summer's daughter, and there seems to be no question that Yang is the daughter of Taiyang and Raven, but Ruby doesn't seem to resemble Taiyang very much. On the other hand, she bears a fair bit of resemblance to Qrow. It's mostly the hair.

So the family tree could look something like this (sorry about the paint image, I wrote it out properly but the picture wouldn't upload):



Qrow didn't stick around, nor did Raven (these Branwens, eh?) and then Summer and Tai had their thing. Naturally, they look after both children as if they were their own, even though they were actually responsible for one each.

Qrow seems to have a special relationship with Ruby, and some kind of beef with his old teammate. Further, Qrow later says offhand that Ruby is special 'not in the "Daddy loves his special angel" kind of way'. This could just be another instance of RWBY's occasionally quirky unfinished dialogue, but I think it might be a slip on Qrow's part, not RT's.

So, that's the crazy hypothesis. Ruby is actually the child of Summer and Qrow, while Yang is actually the child of Raven and Taiyang. Ruby and Yang are blood-related via the Branwen family. 