Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.247.91.107-20140511154823/@comment-10390252-20150211163415

FWIW, I favour this explanation: By long tradition, whilst Huntresses may bear the child of a man whom they love, their first duty and responsibility is to the people of Remnant. Unless they wish to give up their position, they are required by this tradition to leave the child the moment it is born and leave to do their duty. By tradition, the Huntress is considered dead to her child and thus she is not discussed until he or she reaches adulthood.

Raven did this out of a sense of duty, no matter how much it hurt. It is possible that Ozpin gave her a special assignment that was more important than anything, even the future she wanted to share with Taiyang.

Summer made the opposite choice and decided to give up being a full-time Huntress. However, this is where things go murky and I have a difficult time coming up with a scenario where Taiyang does not come across as basically not treating Summer correctly. My best shot is that, as Taiyang already had an heir in Yang, Ruby bears her mother's surname (as per another long-standing tradition). This has nothing to do with Summer being a 'secondeary wife' or anything like that. If Raven had a second child by Taiyang, he or she would have been a Branwen.

Summer only went on Hunts when a special need arose. One day, she never returned.

I honestly wonder if Raven had been able to keep away as tradition demanded. There are basically two scenarios:


 * 1) Yang was simply something Raven wanted Taiyang to have of her if she never returned and she has no special bond with Yang beyond her being her former lover's daughter;
 * 2) Raven made a 'greater good' choice but has never really been happy with it; there has been at least one occasion in the past where she returned to Patch Island as a guest and thus spent time with Yang (but only as 'Auntie Rae').