Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-16277621-20130823040543/@comment-10390252-20131110165754

ImposterParrotGrass wrote: So do you think that Yang's a bounty hunter? Or was this something more personal? I think it was personal but this is running deep into my head-canon so I want to emphasise this is just my personal idea. I think that she was looking for Ruby's missing mother as a birthday present or something.

Maybe their dad had let slip that Ruby's birth mother wasn't dead after all but missing; 'The Transient Princess' is the only picture Ruby has of her so Yang was using it as the basis of an ad-hoc search.