Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-70.64.83.111-20151103022126/@comment-4010415-20151106000114

Okay, but why would Ruby and Yang be led to believe they're sisters and that Taiyang is Ruby's dad, for years before Summer's death?

There've been discussions here on the wiki about how Yang was most likely exaggerating when she said Ruby was a toddler, since Ruby looks older than a toddler in the flashback concept art. That, and we now know that Ruby remembers Summer, judging from how she talked to her grave in V3E1, plus her saying "I miss you." You can't miss someone you don't remember. People start forming and retaining memories at about 3 years old, but even then, most of the memories from around that time fade away. She could've been 4 or 5.

Add to this that Monty actually even outright said that Ruby and Yang are half-sisters. And no, I'm certain he wasn't lying. He never lied to the fandom. When he didn't want to give a straight answer, he either ignored the question, teased us without giving anything away, or found a way to make a neutral statement that wouldn't give anything away but was not a lie.

Seriously, "Qrow is Ruby's real dad" is just a crack theory at this point. It has no real evidence to stand on and is just the fandom's new conspiracy theory.

"But Ruby doesn't look like Taiyang!" She looks like Summer. And not all kids look like one of their biological parents. Sometimes, in real life, a person will actually look just like one parent, but not really look much like the other, if at all, despite both parents being their biological parents. Hell, it happened to me. And in case you ask if I'm sure that both of my parents are my real parents: I look more like a female version of my dad, while pretty much the only thing I got from my mom appearance-wise is my fair skin.