Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33754845-20190919204913/@comment-26018514-20190920205453

Masma93 wrote:

...used her own lieutnant as a decoy despite criticizing Ozpin for manipulating and using others... kidnapped one of her daughter's teamates and best friends... sold her own brother, daughter and Yang's sister and friends to Salem's subordinates to save her own skin and basically told Qrow that they may have never been family.

1. Vernal is like 16, there's no way she was a lieutenant first, she would have been groomed alongside or just outright replaced the Spring maiden from the beginning, she was decoy and bodyguard first, then she became trusted and irreplaceable, you can tell by Raven's reaction to her death that she did feel bad about endangering her, but you don't just make the sacrifice worthless by revealing the truth of the gambit of a body-double.

2. She barely knew how Yang felt about Weiss, and Weiss was a golden goose, if you want to get technical, Raven was the only one who even wanted to return her home to her family, the only evil thing about it was wanting her "cut" for getting her there and returning a runaway.

3. It wasn't just her skin, it was her tribe's, and Yang's too. Qrow and Yang both made the choice to put their lives on the line and stand in the metaphorical firing range, Raven just painted the target in the background and pointed Cinder to the range hoping to distract her long enough to take the target when she wasn't looking, and it worked.