User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Volume 2 episode 6: Burning the Candle/@comment-25091485-20140905022200

That red laser thing was hilarious and great way to inject some humour before serious stuff

Pyrrha being...well... Pyrrha, too nice and now, very depressed (while Jaune is still Jaune)

And onto the serious stuff,

"Ruby and I grew up on Patch, an Island just of the coast of Vale. Our parents were huntsmen, Our Dad taught at signal and Mum would take on missions around the kingdom. Her name was Summer Rose and she was like Super Mum, baker of cookies and slayer of giant monsters.  And then one day she left for a mission and never came back. It was tough. Ruby was really torn up and she was too young to know what was going on."

- Qrow and (Ruby and Yang's) Father both teach at Signal