Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28100269-20180121053147/@comment-32857363-20180601144724

4CC-Ivy wrote: Hi Hello, OP here. Didn't think this would get any replies so I hadn't checked until now! Firstly, when I was saying Vernal was the daughter Raven deserved, I meant that she's the daughter Raven thought she deserved. I did not mean that either Yang or Vernal were objectively better than the other. My general thoughts were that the two girls were both close to Raven and their relationships were an interesting dichotomy. IMO, Raven had genuinely loved or at the least appreciated Vernal - who, we would have to assume voluntarily stepped up to be a fake spring maiden - so in the time away Raven was away from her actual family, she set up a situation where she could be able to "escape" and have this other family of her own. Again, in Raven's mind, her bandits are her family so in her mind, I believed she thought of Vernal as the "daughter" she had "deserved". Yes, I know there are a lot of quote/unquotes but do bear with me. I see. I still question the word choice here, but I can see how you meant it. And I think that Raven and Vernal definitely had a parental bond of sorts. After all Raven's semblance only works on people she's bonded with closely, the only others in the list are her twin brother, husband and actual daughter. I love the contrast and similarities between the "daughters" though. One of them followed her every word and went as far as to die for Raven, whereas the other defies her every word and takes a dump on Raven's expectations. Whereas Raven clearly prepared some monologue to tell Yang everything, Yang didn't care and just wanted to use Raven as a tool to get to Ruby. Nevertheless Yang still took on a burden similar to Vernal's, becoming the prime target of Salem just to take the heat off of Raven, just as Vernal did.