Talk:Qrow Branwen/@comment-73.91.2.197-20161222044456/@comment-4010415-20161224180102

I'm just gonna go ahead and correct the anon: Monty was saying that Yang is not Summer, not that Raven is not Summer. The question was asked back in 2013, before Raven was even so much as mentioned, and the only things the fans cared about in regards to Ruby and Yang's family were:


 * "Who is Summer Rose?! Did she die in the past or will she die in the future?!" (A lot of people still didn't know that the Red Trailer takes place before the show.)


 * "Why do Ruby and Yang have different last names when they're sisters?" Answer is most likely that Ruby was born out of wedlock.

Honestly, the facts are


 * The RWBY crew has never intentionally lied to us before.


 * Monty had absolutely no reason to tell us that Ruby and Yang are half-sisters, as the question was "Is Summer Rose one of Yang's other names?" All he needed to tell us was "No, Summer is mom"


 * It's one thing to mislead, it's an entirely different thing to outright lie. They could've kept their lips zipped tight and done what they always do with spoiler questions: Don't answer, make a joke, give only part of the answer, or say "Watch the show" or "We don't answer spoiler questions". They refused to let Arryn (Blake's voice actress) correct anyone about the spelling of Faunus, even though it was bugging her, because they were afraid that her correcting people would spark even more suspicion that Blake is a Faunus before it was revealed. If they outright lie to us, they lose our trust and we will be wary about believing anything they say about the show.

They can mislead us perfectly fine without lying to our faces. After all, for a pretty significant portion of volume 3, we thought When It Falls was referring to Amity Colosseum. Rooster Teeth released the volume 3 opening and then released WoR: Vytal Festival Tournament, and we, as a fandom, decided that, since the colosseum floats, that must mean it was what was going to fall. But it didn't fall. The CCT did.