Talk:Qrow Branwen/Affiliation/@comment-31.39.82.152-20161225133340/@comment-4010415-20161225134306

He's most likely not even related to Ruby.

Monty Oum, the creator of the show, told us that Ruby and Yang are half-sisters. The RWBY crew, including Monty, have never intentionally lied to us before. Back in 2013, someone had brought up that, in the Yellow Trailer, Yang says that she has many names, and they asked Monty if one of Yang's many names is Summer Rose. He told them no, Summer is Ruby's mom, and Ruby and Yang are only half-sisters. He didn't even have to tell us that they're half-sisters, just that Yang doesn't go by the name Summer Rose because that's a different person.

Qrow is biologically Yang's uncle because he's Raven's brother, so he's not really related to Ruby. Even if Ruby knows this, she doesn't care because he has always been there, acting like an uncle.

And think about it: When Summer disappeared/died, Tai shut down with depression (according to Yang). Ruby didn't have a mother anymore, and her father was shut down. The only functional adult in her life was Qrow, who likely made regular visits to make sure that Ruby and Yang were okay and to take some weight off Tai's shoulders by helping take care of them. Of course Ruby ended up bonding with and looking up to Qrow.

As for the mere 2 year gap between Ruby and Yang's ages... It would help if we knew more about Tai's relationships with Summer and Raven before they graduated Beacon.

What if Tai had dated Summer before, they broke up, Tai got with Raven, and Tai and Raven had Yang? Then, Summer and Tai still had old feelings for each other, so when Summer stepped in to help him raise infant Yang, acting as parents together started to rekindle their old feelings for each other. One thing led to another, and they ended up having a night of passion, possibly leading to Ruby being an accident.