Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27151765-20151102160804

The first time I got this idea I thought it was me just having a dirty mind or something and wasn't factual. But even after I did some research and double checked some RWBY lore, I've come to this conclusion in addition to some other discrepencies: '''Yang's parents never married. '''And I have solid evidence to back it up.

It's actually fairly simple. Where it gets confusing is her relationship with Ruby but lets just start with Yang's parents.

We know her father is Taiyang Xiao Long. The have the same hair color and last name. But what's her mother's name?: Raven Branwen. Obviously, if Raven and Taiyang married her name would've been Raven Xiao Long. Last I checked that's how he last name thing works, unless there's something I don't know about the culture of Remnant. But if it was cultural for a woman to keep her maiden name, then Summer Rose's daughter would not be Ruby Rose.

Another piece of evidence is on the wiki itself. Tailong's relationship section lists Raven as a "significant other" and not "spouse."

Now when you try to figure out how Ruby's family tree intersects with Yang's, there appears to be some errors. Starting with Taiyang who is listed as her father but what kind? As I said earlier, she inheirited her mother's last name meaning her unammed father must have also been Rose. Thus making her the adopted daughter of Taiyang.

Multiple times in the anime,''' Ruby and Yang are reffered to as half sisters. This must be false because if Ruby was adopted then they don't have any parents in common, '''technically making them adoptive siblings. I had a sister that was adopted into my family and believe me, we never used the term "half sister."

One last thing, Qrow's last name is Branwen, assumedly making him Raven's sister (get it, Qrow and Raven are birds). In the wiki, 'Yang and ''Ruby are his nieces. This can't be true though because we just established that Ruby is adopted'''. Because Taiyang never married, Qrow isn't really his brother-in-law but can still be Yang's maternal Uncle.

I almost confused myself to be honest but here's what I believe:

Yang's parents never married.

Ruby and Yang aren't half siblings.

Qrow isn't Ruby's Uncle.

If you're going to rage about how it makes more sense if you don't think about it, you're right, now go have fun rewatching the first two seasons of RWBY or something.

If you found some evidence that I haven't mentioned which solidly contradicts my theories, go ahead and comment. I'd be interested to have an intelligent debate.

If you thought what I said was accurate and dispelled a lot of confussion, awesome! Thanks for reading my post and I'm glad I could help  