Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.247.91.107-20140511154823/@comment-25801533-20150315211529

Shinnypichu88 wrote: The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: Raven's last name is known to be Branwen and, honestly, I think it would be absurd to suggest it is just a coincidence that well before we knew that name a "montyoum" account gave Qrow's last name as Branwen. I always allow room for doubt in anything that isn't 100% confirmed, but I think there is essentially no chance that Branwen is not Qrow's last name. The same last name and similar first names leaves me with no meaningful doubt about whether Qrow or Raven are family. My stance is that it is as good as guaranteed and something that can generally be accepted as confirmed.

Was there ever a 100% confirmation that "montyoum" was really monty? Like I said, whie it's good to speculate you should be prepared for being wrong.

Granted you're likely right. Here's how I see this being likely to come out. Qrow's last name is probably going to be Branwen (the edit could have said anything, but for the same name to appear in the story with a character of a similar name seems far too coincidental). Raven and Qrow are siblings. Raven was with Taiyang and they had Yang (making her potentially half faunus with a human father and a mother who seems to be in the white fang (if Raven is her mother)). Raven leaves, and Taiyang then gets together with Summer. The two of them have Ruby (both human parents). Qrow is Yang maternal uncle, and being raised as sisters Ruby would grow up calling him uncle as well. Now because of all of this I have some theories about who Qrow is, but it causes a lot of controversy so I won't delve into that. So this, to me, seems to be a fairly reasonable outsome.