Talk:Taiyang Xiao Long/@comment-26306690-20181102234534/@comment-25936766-20181104032916

Actually, Swagger, we do. After Summer died, Tai got too depressed to actually be there for his daughters, to the point they almost got killed. Qrow, meanwhile, was the one that saved them, and Ruby admires him enough to copy his fighting style to a great extent.

There's also the fact that the very first time she even mentioned Tai, it was in a kind of disgusted manner, with later moments being mostly neutral about it. For comparison, the first time she talked about Qrow she was fangirling about him, and she pretty much continues to do so for the rest of the show, while never actually showing disagreement or anything, even when Jaune's salty ass proposed the idea that Qrow used her to bait Tyrian out.

Now, all that combined would only make Qrow Ruby's role model, not necesarily "more dad than Tai for her".....but then you consider how throughout a good chunk of Ruby's childhood, Qrow was the one there for her to teach her and help her, not Tai. He would've been a father figure for Ruby, a bigger one than Tai's ever been.