Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24934890-20181008004211/@comment-33287020-20181015143353

I'm really tired of the mentality that Yang shouldn't call Raven mom because it usually stems from the idea that Summer was her "real" mom. In all actuality, Summer was probably around for maybe a year or two of Yang's rememberable life, and then she unintentionally (or intentionally, if she knew it was a death mission) abandoned her, as well. Remember, Yang implied Ruby wasn't even at the age in which she could talk when Summer died, in Alone Together. Yang would've been like 3 or 4 at the most, if we're being generous. Kids start remembering things at the age of 2.

Summer wasn't really there for Yang either, in the long run. Just because she was nice and made cookies for a tiny fraction of Yang's life, before abandoning her just like Raven did, does not make her Yang's "real" mom. The tragedy of Yang's character is that she had no mother figure in her life.

Getting pissed at Yang calling her biological mother "Mom" but being fine with Ruby calling Summer "Mom", despite Summer never really being present in her life either is a double standard. Both of them abandoned their children for different reasons, doesn't matter if Summer did it unintentionally, Ruby still grew up without her biological mom because Summer chose to be another casualty in Ozpin and Salem's never ending war, which is something Raven even hints at in V5.