Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27265101-20170131070502/@comment-4010415-20170308224719

Ehhh. I'm still iffy on whether or not Merry would actually have Qrow and Winter have a thing, and I'm actually pretty damn sure that they would not have Qrow and Winter have had a thing in the past, unless it's the very very recent past, considering their age gap.

After all, Qrow was most likely at the very LEAST 38 years old in volumes 1-3, while Winter was most likely in her early to mid 20s.

This judging by

a) The fact that Winter doesn't look much older than Weiss in the Schnee family portrait. Weiss is 17 in volumes 1-3, and in the portrait, Winter looks like she can't be much more than a few years older than Weiss. We know that Winter has graduated from whatever Huntsman academy she attended (most likely Atlas) and joined the Atlesian military's special ops, so can't be younger than 21.

b) Raven and Qrow are twins. If Raven had Yang while she was still 21 (the graduation age for Huntsman academies), then for volumes 1-3, you take 21, add Yang's age of 17, and you get 38.

Which means that Qrow was an adult while Winter was a preteen.

The odds of any current sexual relationship between Qrow and Winter wholly depends on Merry's stance on such an age gap that's in the ballpark of 20 years.