Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33053086-20171110214809/@comment-26018514-20171111005930

Sentry 616 wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: I think the transformation is a tribe thing rather than a blood thing, so it probably doesn't change species, and Yang's membership is required. I was using the Faunus as a similar, albeit defferent example. Thus far while we have seen some rather crazy anatomy, we haven't seen any Faunus that combine a human with a fictional animal, only things as crazy as a cat girl with a forked spine and a Scorpion-tailed nut job. Similarly, we have only seen transformations into actual birds that exist IRL. Mind you the latter only has one known example.

While it may be a tribe thing, the only person doing it stopped being part of the group years ago, and knowledge usually isn't fundamentally bound by allegance. Maybe Qrow or Raven could teach her, seeing as the former is the only known example, and the latter is the most likely second example. again, I think it is fairy tale(like the Maidens or SEW's) MAGIC belonging to the tribe... which has tattoos and probably other rituals members must undertake... the tribes literally named BRANWEN, as in Crow/Raven species... if Raven and Qrow have the magic to turn into said species, yet are named not for that ability, nor blood related to the tribe that adopted them, then the most likely assumption is that EVERYONE where they grew up can do that... which was in the tribe named "BRANWEN", not "I'M A MOTHERf***ING PHEONIX YA'LL".

Qrow's current association is irrelevant, he may not want to be a part of it, but he still did the stuff necessary, doesn't want to get rid of the power, and Raven both cares about him(in her way) and has an open-door policy for his return, so she probably wouldn't activate the "kill"-switch(which might actually kill him) assuming there is one in the first place.