Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26099499-20150226151824/@comment-25555436-20150317181437

DiegoAnime3000 wrote: 1. What Mercen said is that Raven is obviously Qrow's sister because her surnames is Branwen. However, if we use the logic of how Ruby and Yang have different surnames then the fact that Raven has Branwen as her surnames does not mean that she's Yang's mother. She could be her sister which is the idea Mercen is against.

2. Considering that the shopkeeper and Port actually look and talk old, it means that the animation style doesn't necessarily make everyone look young. They can make them look older but giving them the exactly same face and then telling the audience that these two characters are mother and daughter is just a really stupid anime trope. I'm actually surprised you're ok with that Live, considering this is you we're talking about.

3. Thank you, I guess?

4. My point is that saying Raven is Yang's sister is entirely possible and if done right then it can be saved from ultimately bad storytelling. It's true that RWBY is showing traits of a repetitive plot if we compare the finale of Volume 1 with Volume 2 but Raven as Yang's sister is still a good idea. We can't judge that until we see the outcome. 1-Dude, don't quote all of the responses to a post. That takes up lots of space. And Mercen hates that.

2-I said mother, not man. There's a reason the trope is called Absurdly Young Mother. Fathers are usually shown with a look that does make them look like someone their age (a 25 years old man looks like a 22-27 years old man, for example). Mothers, however, are shown very young looking (30 years old woman that looks like 16). In other words, while men look closer to their real age, women in anime may not necesarily do. In the worsts of cases, the woman in particular is a womanchild in both senses of the world.

And yes, there are artists/writers/whatever that give said mothers a face so young they can look almost-identical to their daughters. I'm not saying I like that trope (I think it's just a pityful attempt to please the fetishes of the japanese), never said I was ok. I simply said, because it exists in anime relatively-commonly, and RWBY is inspired by anime, it's presence is still valid.