Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161023154654/@comment-70.195.135.194-20161025145103

BenRG wrote:

One possibility (which I have raised before) is that Raven is a deep-cover agent personally assigned by Ozpin to infiltrate Salem's group. In order to maintain her cover, she has been forced to do... questionable things. Things that, if she worked for a legitimate government agency rather than Ozpin's personal militia, would leave her and her controllers spending the next five years or so in front of varoious Boards of Inquiry.

Now that's a theory I can get behind as it's another theory that would explain why she has limited contact with Qrow. The only other theories I've heard that explain Raven having limited contact with Qrow is that Raven is a maiden as well (though I personally lean towards her not wanting to live her life confined to Ozpin's protectection).

That said your deep cover theory would also help explain another suspicion I've had. The momment she appeared, Raven's weapon choice, brief opening attack (which she imediately sheaths her weapon afterwards similar to Adam in the trailer), and design made me think that she might have been the mentor of Adam Taurus at some point. If so she's goibg to have some complicated feelingd about Adam slicing off Yang's arm.

-Defcon Deceiver