Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141024002244/@comment-6863431-20141024025337

Had a great idea about Raven, then realized that it doesn't really fit within the RWBY timeframe, so now I'm a little sad.

Also, on another point,

128.84.124.96 wrote:

Qrow's and Summer's team seems like it could definitely be Oz based. With Qrow as the Scarecrow, Summer as Dorothy, I would guess that the last two members, Taiyang and Yang's mother, are probably the tin man and the cowardly lion. For some reason, I can't see our bird themed Raven fitting either of those. I don't think that team QRTS is Oz themed, actually. That seems to be more of a Beacon-staff thing. QRTS seems much more poetry-centric. Qrow and Raven being from Poe's "The Raven", and Summer from Moore's "Last Rose of Summer." Don't ask me about Taiyang, I can't find any theme that fits him until we learn more about him in-universe. Speculation is fun and all, but trying to guess a character with just a name and family members to go on is pretty difficult.

(interesting thing, try googling "Edgar Allan Poe crow". It will come up with the poem "The Raven," but it will highlight the word "Nevermore" instead of "raven". Just an interesting fact I found out while researching)