Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-66.112.186.214-20180124005925/@comment-10390252-20180224141736

Masterswordxx wrote:

Bonus: In Vol 3 Qrow is a lot more bitter than he is in later volumes, telling Pyrrha that the maiden powers transfer through "a bunch of stupid and convoluted rules." Shortly after, he specifically complains about how they can't get passed on to some old dude. I wonder if Qrow was expecting to inherit maiden powers before that rule was known about, either from Amber who he was protecting, or maybe from Summer (I'm with the bunch that thinks Qrow is Ruby's dad). Given that the empowered beings are specifically called 'maidens', I doubt that Qrow ever had any expectation of inheriting the power. However, I suspect that Ozpin had tried to explain to him the parameters of the maiden empowerment spell. Qrow, being Qrow, felt he could summarise them as "crazy spaghetti logic based on Oz's rose-tinted view of human goodness that is sure to blow up in our faces one day". Lo and behold, they did indeed do so.