Talk:Qrow Branwen/@comment-73.91.2.197-20161222044456/@comment-25936766-20161224175002

A Red Herring is, normally, within a work. A possibility is brought up, implied, made to seem likely, to hide another possibility, usually the right one. Though this is normally done in Mistery works, with questions like "Who's the culprit?".

A Red Herring, however, is not what you're implying anon. What you're saying, is not that they are making a possibility seem likely to hide another, which is what Red Herrings are. What you're saying is that they lied to us to hide the truth, which is not what Red Herrings are.

Let's say there's a mistery story about a murder, and you have 2 guys: Larry and Bob. The story makes it seem like Larry is the killer, due to his strange behavior, weak/false alibis, and he even had a motive. So the audience would think "Larry is the killer", but then it turns out he was not the killer, but Bob was. This is a Red Herring.

Now, let's say the creator of that work says "Bob is not the killer". The Word of God is Absolute, so everyone discards that idea. Oh, but then it turns out he was the killer after all. And not even something like "split personality" or anything, but Bob himself. That is not a Red Herring, that is a Lie, plain and simple.

RT is not a big company, and unlike other ones they have a close relationship with their community. One that involves trust. RT doesn't lie because they cannot risk lying, they cannot risk hurting that trust.

So, in this case, if they said that Ruby and Yang are Half-Sisters, they are, period. We know Yang is Taiyang and Raven's daughter, so the only way for Ruby to be Qrow's daughter and still be her half-sister, is for Qrow to have fucked Raven. And that's ignoring the fact that neither Qrow nor Raven have Silver Eyes, so if Qrow was her father, there's no way for her to get them.

That is exactly how it is, take it or leave. A Red Herring is not done through lies by the people involved in the work, which is what you're trying to argue anon. They said they are half-sisters, and so they are. They haven't even implied any other possibility to begin with.