Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160702223237/@comment-10390252-20160704211530

Lord Jaric wrote:

I ask this question. If Qrow was Ruby's father why hide it from her and Yang? Why would he, Tai and Summer keep this away from them? What's the gain? It doesn't serve any purpose to do so. WARNING: Semi-Fanfic ahead!

Simply put, there was no purpose in doing so. Ruby was happy with Taiyang and Summer; Qrow had let the adoption happen because he knew he was not able to be her father. Why ruin her happiness for no good reason? Besides, it had been a stupid, drunken mistake on a bad day and there was no need to make Summer's end of the mistake any more distructive for the relationship she'd developed with Taiyang after Raven went storming off into the wilderness to pursue and destroy evil in a way that better suited her sensibilities.

However, having willingly given up fatherhood in his head didn't make it any easier to do so in his heart so, yeah, he was present whenever he could (Taiyang is good enough a man that he wouldn't keep Qrow away so long as he kept to their agreement). Then Ozpin told him the story of the Silver Eyed Ones, a story that the Conspiracy had kept supressed for the obvious reasons. Whoever was responsible for Summer's death had known it too; Ruby, by her very nature, was at risk. So it was, when she started at Signal, she became his personal, special project.

If he's anything like real-life stepfathers, Taiyang would probably plan to tell Ruby the truth about her parentage when she's an adult; what she did with that knowledge would then be up to her.

Here's why I don't think that it is likely to be the case: I can't think of a single decent narritive reason for this to happen at present. However, this could change and radically if the collapse of the web of relationships that was Team STRQ becomes a key plot point.