Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-76.117.120.112-20130817231139/@comment-10390252-20130818183038

Now that is a very intersting and very valid idea. We've based the 'Ruby is an adopted orphan' on the assumption that Summer Rose's grave was associated with her immediate family. However, with Jaune's revelation that the last Great War was five generations back, the suggestion that Summer was Ruby's late mother or guardian is no longer as water-tight as it could be.

So, there is actually no reason whatsoever why Yang shouldn't be the adopted one. Indeed, it would explain why Ruby was allowed to go tramping all the way up to the Snowy Forest if it was a family tradition to visit Summer's memorial. It would also explain why Yang is so sexually precocious and wild; adopted kids and those in foster care occasionally turn out like that.