User blog comment:Endor 66/Why do Ruby and Yang have different last names/@comment-186.188.68.63-20140226184818/@comment-186.188.68.63-20140226214330

A ha! Allow me to elaborate:

Okay, so Ruby's mom (Summer?) does... things with an old classmate on a reunion of the academy. Then she finds out that the guy is married with another friend of hers, that couldn't attend the reunion because she had to take care of their FREAKING CHILD! She gives him one hell of a lecture (and perhaps a few bruises), but leaves after making sure that something like this wouldn't repeat AND that it had no consequences.

Fate is a funny thing, you know. Because nine months later, Summer receives a life changing gift: a baby girl with silver eyes.

After having the baby, Summer is doing all the legal paperwork and all that stuff (not sure what the correct term is) in order to take care of her as a single mother, that is also a huntress, so she needed to make some back up plans. While doing this, she came across with the document that states who's gonna be Ruby's legal guardians in the event of her death, and she wrote down the Xiao Long (the couple mentioned before) as an afterthought.

Fate plays another card in their life, in the form of Summers death, leaving her little Ruby behind.

While Ruby was still very young, so she was taken to the Xiao Long whom, while very surprised and confused about the news, didn't hesitate to accept her into their home. Ruby is sad and very, very confused about everything that is going on. But once she warms up to this new home and these people (especially Yang) and she grows up considering them her family, and being welcomed to it.

So yeah, Ruby sees her family as her very own, even though she wasn't born in it. Summer never had the chance to tell anybody about who is her father, so the blood relationship between Ruby and Yang went unnoticed, except for Word of God.

Does everything of the above make sense?

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