Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-26286858-20150706100743/@comment-25555436-20150706133435


 * Slaps you with a fish*

Wrong, very wrong. Remember this is fiction, based on anime, and as such there are multiple factors that can make it very possible.

1-In anime everyone can look younger than they are. Women in their 30s? They can look no different than 16 years old girls if the artist so desires. This show is no different. By basing oneself on looks alone, Ruby would be 12, Weiss would be 15, Blake 16, Nora 14, Glynda in her late 20s, and Ozpin would be early 40s. And yet Ruby is 15, Weiss and Blake and probably Nora are 17, Glynda is more like in her 30s, and Ozpin is implied to be over 60 years old. Thanks to Aura (so, yeah, one can fight aging in Remnant).

2-In anime, mothers are very often similar-looking to their daughters no matter the age difference, leading to them being confused for their sister instead. In some cases they look almost identical. This may well be such case.

3-There's the Dream Theory. That the whole post-credit scene was a dream, an ilusion of Yang's mind. There are multiple reasons for this, I only remember some, such as Raven's whole hairstyle changing once she takes off her mask.

The most basic explanation is that Yang's mind thinks Raven is her mother, from the moment she saved her life. Sounds stupid but it's Truth In Television; some people with big-enough obsessions or traumas can reach big conclusions over small incidents and coincidences.

However, Yang never saw Raven's face, the only picture she seems to have of her is decades old, way before she was born. As such, in the dream, her mind, thinking Raven is her mother, basically pastes Yang's face and hair in Raven's image because it doesn't know Raven's real face.

As for why we think Raven is Yang's mom, the Dream Theory collaborates on it, along with the other 2 points I pointed out. But it also requires a medium amount of knowledge on tropes. Yang talks about her mother, some episodes later a mysterious woman comes out of nowhere and saves her life, stares at her, then leaves. To a normal person this barely means anything. But to someone who knows enough of certain tropes, this means that yes, Raven is Yang's mom or at least it's related to her somehow.