Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25555436-20150721231017

Long Description: This is something I've been thinking about. Basically, it goes like this:

Taiyang and Raven used to date while in College, or an Academy that is of an equivalent level like Beacon. Around their last year, they did the deed, like nearly every College pair has done throughout history.

Raven got pregnant shortly before graduating. She didn't notice until some time later. Once she and Taiyang found out, Raven got pissed, and forced him to take responsibility. While she was able to perform some missions like normal, eventually her pregnancy reached the point where she couldn't do it anymore.

Thankfully for Raven, thanks to Taiyang's marvelous grades as a Hunter-in-Training, he was quickly hired as a professor at Signal shortly after graduating. This way they had the income to raise the baby well-enough.

Some months after graduation, Yang was born (yaaaaay....). Taiyang and Raven getting married because of the baby is an optional possibility, but nothing that really affects this theory. Although Raven was pissed off with Taiyang, she still loved him. However, unknown to her (at first), while she was pregnant, Taiyang had been cheating on her with Summer Rose. She found out a short while after giving birth to Yang.

Being understandably mad, she almost-inmediately left Taiyang. She didn't have much of an issue leaving Yang behind as well, her being both an unwanted child and a would-have-been reminder of Taiyang. Not saying she didn't care about her daughter, just saying she didn't care that much, at least back then.

Taiyang, throughout his affair with Summer, kept having doubts and a feeling of guilt. After Raven left him, those feelings grew a lot. At this point, Summer, who has had feelings for him since before he and Raven started dating, took this oportunity to play with him, manipulate him, and make him her own, and eventually, it worked. "But Summer is a kind mother!" you say? Let me remind you: A Kind Mother=/=A Kind Woman. A mother can be kind to her children, yet a cruel harpy at the same time.

Eventually, Ruby was born. Taiyang and Summer, plus Yang and Ruby, became a family (yaaaaay....). One day, Summer left to go on a mission, like normal, being a Huntress and all. The mission was just eliminating some Grimm, something she was able to take care off. However, during the mission, she was ambushed by Raven, and soon killed by her.

The rest is what we have already been told. Summer was confirmed as either MIA or KIA, but in either case Taiyang told his daughters that she went on a mission and never came back. He was devastated and so Qrow took his place as professor at Signal. He hasn't fully recovered yet but it's getting there.

Short Description: Taiyang got Raven pregnant, then cheated on her with Summer. Raven left after Yang's birth, being pissed off at him. Summer then manipulated him to get him to focus fully on her, leading to them forming a family and Ruby being born. Then she went on a mission, where Raven killed her by surprise.

Now, to answer a few possible questions:

1Q: Why did Qrow help Taiyang after Summer's death then?

1A: Has he? Have we actually been told that he helped Taiyang? In case he did, there is an explanation: Pity. Seeing Taiyang's fall into despair was too sorrowful for Qrow. Even if it was Karmic, even if Taiyang deserved it (in Qrow's eyes anyway), it was too pityful.

2Q: Why did he save Yang and Ruby from the Beowulves, and taught Ruby how to fight, then?

2A: Ruby and Yang are just innocent products of the whole deal. They had nothing to do with the whole romantic issue between Raven, Taiyang and Summer. Even if Qrow hated Taiyang for what he did to Raven, he was calm and mature enough to not blame and hate his daughters for his actions.

And in any case, Yang was Raven's daughter anyway.

3Q: Why did Raven save Yang on the train?

3A: She never forgot about her, she has been watching her from time to time. But didn't exactly go visit her, either because she was still mad at Taiyang, or because it would just be too awkward after all those years away to simply come and say "I'm your mother". However, when she saw that Neo was about to kill her, she decided to act, but not stay for long.

As for what she was doing on the train, there's the theory about her being a Faunus. However, that is not the point of discussion here, so I won't go deep into it.

So, what do you think about this theory? 