Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-28745050-20160614060931/@comment-4010415-20160728020755

I know we've long since moved past the whole "Writers tend to lie thing", but I kinda wanna say, it's really true that writers for some series lie. What I have learned is: Take everything that the writers of MLP:FiM say with a grain (or a pile) of salt, but for the most part, you can trust RWBY's writers.

Back before the season 3 finale of MLP, people kept finding a whole bunch of stuff of Twilight as an alicorn, and the fandom was in a bit of chaos about it with different opinions and arguments over whether or not it was a hoax. Fans asked the writers if Twilight was going to become an alicorn princess, and the writers said no. Seaosn 3 finale comes out aaand... poof, Twilight gets wings and becomes an alicorn princess. I understand them not wanting a big plot point to be spoiled, since the premieres and finales are the only times they get any actual ongoing plot happening, but if you don't want that shit spoiled, maybe talk to Hasbro about doing a better job of keeping it hidden. Also kinda hard to keep plot stuff secret when Hasbro releases toys of the plot stuff before the episodes or movies come out, so maybe they should give up.

Anywayyyy... RWBY, meanwhile... Instead of going "Oh shit, they figured out a plot point, quick tell them they're wrong!", they avoid giving a clear answer. They'll give a joke answer or a vague answer or no answer at all. That kind of thing. They have never intentionally lied as far as I've seen, and I've been among the people keeping up with what they've said since 2013. It's interesting how you can really get a feel for how they act and operate after 3 years of watching interviews and panels and reading tweets.

As for Qrow's relationship with Ruby.. Yeah, really, since Ruby and Yang are half-sisters, it'd be very gross if Qrow is Ruby's father. The only conclusion we can come to is that Taiyang really is Ruby's father. It's like a crazy math equation. If Summer = Ruby's mother, Raven = Yang's mother, Taiyang = Yang's father, and Ruby + Yang = Half-sisters, then X = Ruby's father. Find X. Lol.

I'm honestly not sure how I feel about the theory of Qrow and Summer having unrequited love, but I do think that they had some kind of close relationship. It's hard for them not to when they were on a team together, especially since Summer was the team's leader and thus had to have a good bond with each teammate in order to efficiently lead them in the heat of battle.

Personally, I can't help but wonder if the big source of Tai and Qrow's conflict is that Qrow may have helped Ozpin recruit Summer so they could send her on missions to make use of her silver eye powers, and she was on one of those missions when she died. Tai could blame Ozpin and Qrow for Summer's death, and Tai and Summer could not want that to be Ruby's future. I think Tai knows about the silver eye powers thing. Upon rewatching that scene a few times, Tai's behavior seems a bit odd, to me. I mean, here's basically how it plays out, as I remember it:


 * Tai is excited that Ruby is awake and tells her what all happened. He tells her that she defeated the Dragon and sort of froze it.


 * Ruby expresses that she doesn't remember doing that.


 * Tai's attitude changes as he realizes that she dosen't remember, and it seems almost like he backpedals.

Basically like:

Tai: You did froze the Dragon!

Ruby: I did what? How did I do that?

Tai: Hm?

Ruby: You said I froze the Dragon. What're you talking about?

Tai: (Thoughts: She doesn't remember?) Uh.. That's not important right now.

Dude, really? You were going on about it earlier, but as soon as you realize she dosen't remember, you don't wanna talk about it anymore? And then, as he walks out and glares at Qrow, it seems like he knows that Qrow is about to tell her about her silver eye powers.

Ruby looking up to Qrow could be a number of things. Maybe he really did actively form a strong bond with her because of her being Summer's daughter. Maybe, between the two men in her life - Tai (who was shut down and depressed, like Yang said) and Qrow (who may have visited fairly often to help Tai take care of Ruby and Yang) - Ruby took more interest in Qrow. Maybe Ruby remembers a little bit about Qrow saving her and Yang when Yang went out looking for clues about Raven. All I know is, when it comes down to her scythe, I think Ruby chose to wield a scythe without input from Qrow. She said "I was complete garbage before he took me under his wing", which means she had already been trying to learn how to wield a scythe and sucked at it until he helped her.

Aaand this turned out to be a much longer post than I intended when I started typing. Sorry about that. ^^;