Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-26285342-20150408033208/@comment-4010415-20150414142135

Either way, Raven is presented as having more connection with Yang than with Ruby. Before anyone says it, no, her black and red color scheme means absolutely nothing. People once assumed Adam and Ruby were related because they both share a black and red color scheme, but we were told that they have absolutely no relation. A color scheme is just a color scheme.

It was revealed that Yang has been searching for her real mother, ever since she found out about her after Summer was KIA/went MIA, and that it's so important to her that, even after almost getting herself and Ruby killed, she is still searching for answers, just less obsessively. The very same volume that this was revealed, we end up with some mysterious lady coming to Yang's rescue and crouching to check on her before raising her sword to fully engage in battle with Yang's would-be murderer. On top of that, Yang just happened to wake up just in time to see this woman leaving and then ended up having a dream about her at the end of the volume.

It seems that the woman in the photo Yang showed to Junior in the Yellow Trailer has long black hair, and we can be pretty certain that it was a photo of her mother. How old this photo is, we have no idea. For all we know, it could be a photo from when her mother was a teenager or in her 20s, thus making the search more difficult and also influencing the kind of face that Yang's mind projects onto the masked woman in her dream.

The RT RWBY crew gave Raven the same exact hair model that Yang has, likely due to running low on time when they were making Breach, but their model choice may still say something about who this character is meant to be or have a connection to.

Hair aside, her face seems to match Yang's a lot more than it matches Ruby's. I even overlayed Raven's face with both Yang's and Ruby's faces and matched them up as best as I could. Obviously, her face does not even remotely match Ruby's. It matches up with Yang's incredibly well. Her eyes' shape is only a little different from Yang's.

And then there's Yang's reaction to Raven's unmasking. Not just what her reaction may imply, but also what the camera work implies. They showed Raven's face, then switched to Yang's, with Yang in the same position in the camera's view and her eyes red, just like Raven's.

I very much doubt that Raven is Summer, and I get the feeling that she's not Yang's sister or cousin, or alternate universe Yang, or Ruby (corrupted, Dust-infused, or otherwise) from the future. And I very much doubt that she has any relation to Cinder.