Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24934890-20180911200208/@comment-24934890-20180916012914

W4rma wrote: TaiYang and Ruby share exactly zero traits. Zero traits. When Summer disappeared did TaiYang decide to avoid Ruby for the rest of her life? She has none of TaiYang's hand-to-hand capability, none of his pun humor, doesn't look even a little bit like him, doesn't share any of his color-scheme. Nothing. Did Ruby even grow up in TaiYang's household?

And yet, Ruby looks like a smaller, female version of Qrow. They share color schemes, weapons, capes, facial structures, humor, ethics. They completely adore one another. And the way that Qrow dismissed TaiYang from Ruby's bedroom gave the impression that TaiYang deferred to Qrow because Qrow is the "real"/real father. We don't know much of anything about Summer, but Ruby seems to have every Qrow trait, except the silver eyes from Summer and a, thankfully, different semblence from Qrow.

And about Qrow's bad luck in semblences: His bad luck semblence means that if he spent too much time with Ruby, she'd probably have died, by now, from any number of accidents that happen to children, and enhanced by Qrow's bad luck to anybody nearby him. Raven made the choice to be a raven-mother to Yang, but her twin, Qrow, would not have that choice: Qrow would HAVE to be a "raven-father" (is that a real term, as Rabenmutter is?) or else Ruby wouldn't survive her childhood. I kind of like the duality of this parenting with the Branwen twins.

And why does it have to "add to the story"? It's just consistency in world building. RT should just go with it. All of the foundational logic for Qrow's fatherhood is already written in.

P.S. Qrow's genetic fatherhood wouldn't need to diminish the "adopted" sisterhood and "adopted" fatherhood relationships of Yang and TaiYang, respectively, to Ruby. Not in the least. Oh ym Lord, I can't believe I just read that. That is utterly stupid.

1# Them not looking a like does JACK SHIT to prove that Qrow is her dad. You are aware that it's INCREDIBLY common for children to look like one of their parents, instead of both? I look exactly like my dad, and nothing like my mom. But she's still my mom. My siblings look like my mom, but nothing like my dad. But he's still their dad. And mind you she looks nothing like Qrow either. she is not a "smaller female version of Qrow." She is the spitting image of her mother Summer.

2# No way you were watching the same scene I was, because Qrow had to ASK to Tai to speak to Ruby. If he were her dad, he would simply have to say something like, "Tai, give us a while."

3. Given that everything in the show, with at least a little bit of proper analyzing, does nothing to point to Qrow being her dad, and the fact that the creators confirmed not ONCE, but TWICE that Tai is her dad, do you still honestly believe he is her dad?

Also, that whole thing about her dressing like Qrow was stated by Miles, as I put in the OP, to be just because she greatly admires him.