Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24119615-20141123041901/@comment-4010415-20141127102116

One reason her hair is exactly like Yang's may be that they were just reusing resources since they ran low on time. Miles admitted that they barely managed to finish the finale on time. So, they may not have had time to make a new model for Raven's hair and instead quickly made a black texture to slap onto a model of Yang's hair and slapped a red texture on the outter model that serves as the outlines.

Hell, they also used recolors of Neo's necklaces for Raven and Coco. They were reusing resources.

They also used Team RWBY's bedroom for Team JNPR's bedroom and Cinder's group's bedroom... You'll notice in the JNPR bedroom scene, the curtains had the same exact stitching that RWBY's curtains have from Ruby cutting them in half. JNPR also has a The Achieve Men poster in the same exact spot Yang put hers. Cinder's group has Weiss' painting of Forever Fall on their wall in the same exact spot. Jaune wore the same dress to the dance that some of the background characters wore.

Volume 2 is full of reused resources.

As for how young Raven looks... It could be the art style, considering Monty said Ozpin is super super old but Ozpin looks really young. It could also be the fact that it seemed like Yang was having a dream. Maybe the photo Yang has of Raven doesn't show Raven's face very well or is a really old photo from when Raven was around her age. So, the dream could be Yang projecting the photo onto the masked woman, since she doesn't know what Raven looks like now that she's an adult.

I've also come up with the random theory that Raven Branwen might be Yang's mother but not the masked woman. Rather, Yang simply hopes that the masked woman is Raven and thus had a dream that she was. It'd be a pretty cool plot twist, but somehow, given Blake being a faunus being so obvious and hinted to and Penny being a robot was made really obvious, I'm not sure that they would have it happen.

Plus, in an interview, one of them said that if you come up with a complicated theory, it's probably wrong. They're not trying to come up with anything too complicated.