Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24177652-20150127071507/@comment-26028321-20150127210626

IIRC we don't have 100% confirmation that she has a picture of her mom. The yang trailer in mind I'd say it's very likely she does, but the picture they show in the flashback when she's talking to blake wasn't neccessarily a picture of her mom (though again I'd guess likely) all we know is it had some sort of clue that led Yang to that shack. Though it could easily have been the picture with some words on the back of it or something.

Just bits of information, IIRC though we can't see much detail, the picture she shows Junior is of a woman with long dark hair. Also we know that Raven (Yang's mom or not) blink's when she appears on the train so her eyes should really be red Just like the woman we see after the credits.

My personal bet is that the ending sequence is a dream, the last thing RWBY talked about was getting some sleep after all those events. And the image Yang conjures is the one from the picture of her mother (The picture could actually be even older than 17 years.)

My thoughts on Yang getting upset when she sees her mom: Even though Yang wants answers to why her mom left and probably to see her mom again, she's also probalby pretty angry at her mom for leaving (I imagine I would be) and actually faced with seeing her mother a lot of conflicting emotions come to the surface.