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Okay, this is weird, but I have a crazy theory about Ruby and Yang’s family.

Yang and Ruby are not half-sisters. They’re cousins. And Adam Taurus and Yang are half-siblings.

Big statements, I know! Let me explain.

Yang is the daughter of Taiyang and Raven; that seems obvious from the last episode of Season Two. Now, we’ve been told that after Raven left the family, Taiyang had Ruby with Summer Rose, making Ruby and Yang half-sisters, but what if that’s not actually the case?

What if Summer and Qrow had Ruby, and Taiyang either didn’t know or chose to raise her as his own?

If you think about their parents’ pasts, it makes sense to me: Taiyang, Qrow, Raven and Summer were all on a team at Beacon. We know that the teams at Beacon are really close-knit—it’s common for partners to be close friends, if not frequently romantically involved (Team JNPR is one example, exempting any shipping in RWBY, but it seems common). It’s possible that Raven had a half-faunus child (Adam, which I’ll get to later) that she gave up due to the tension between humans and faunus at the time. While at Beacon or afterwards, Raven and Taiyang get together, while Summer holds an unrequited love for Taiyang. Qrow, Summer’s partner, has an emotional connection with her, but he knows she’s into someone else. Eventually, Raven’s guilt catches up to her, and she leaves to find and care for her son, leaving her daughter with her husband and intending to return. For whatever reason, she doesn’t. When Raven leaves Taiyang for good, Summer takes her place, but perhaps has developed mutual feelings for Qrow that haven’t been acted on while waiting to be with Taiyang. I'm not sure that I buy Summer marrying him out of sympathy--perhaps she was close with him, and didn't have feelings for him anymore and wanted to raise Yang, but I think there's more to it than just sympathy. After their marriage, Summer’s needs aren’t met by Taiyang, who Yang has mentioned shuts down when he depressed, as he might be after his first wife’s disappearance. Summer and Qrow are still close, and in a moment of weakness, Qrow and Summer sleep together and Ruby is produced from that coupling. Summer passes it off as Taiyang’s, and Qrow vows to take care of his daughter from the sidelines.

This is why this seems to make sense: If you look through the pictures, it’s hard not to notice the similarities between Ruby and Raven—they share a color scheme, and Raven’s use of portals as faster transportation echoes Ruby’s speed. Now, we don’t know if semblances are related via bloodlines, but it’s always possible. Yang’s semblance, which does not match Raven’s, could be an ability that skipped a generation, much like how a child can have a grandparent’s hair color even though both of their parents don’t have it. Since Raven left after having Yang, we can assume that Summer carried Ruby, but if Qrow fathered her and NOT Taiyang, that would explain the similarities between Ruby and her aunt, Raven. Additionally, although Ruby is supposedly Taiyang’s daughter, Qrow was the one who personally taught her how to fight using his signature weapon design. AND he watched over both Yang and Ruby when they were children, as shown in episode six.

So where does Adam Taurus fit into this? We know that Adam is a faunus, and his age is difficult to determine. He was Blake’s mentor, and after their falling out he started working with Cinder and her group. That’s about the limit of what we know about his backstory. My theory is that the reason Raven went away in the past was so that she could raise Adam, whom she had given birth to and left behind at some point before having Yang with Taiyang. It seems too coincidental that Adam and Raven both use Asian-inspired swordplay, have the same color scheme, and that Adam shares a semblance with Raven’s other child, Yang. This would mean that Ruby and Yang are cousins, and Adam and Yang are half-siblings.



We don’t know much about Raven, but it’s possible that the reason she is contacting Yang now is because Adam runs the chance of coming into direct combat with her, and she doesn’t want her two children trying to kill each other. We just don’t know.