Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27587790-20160321183825/@comment-25396609-20160403202231

we have no confirmation he actually transformed, might have been a red herring.

in fact, we have evidence he did NOT transform; an identical crow was present during his fight against Winter, and he had that weird eye gleam thing.

if his semblance allows him to somehow communicate with Corvids, then he may have been using the crow to watch for Ironwood to turn up, and using that to time the fight in order to get Winter in as much trouble as possible.