Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26099499-20150226151824/@comment-4010415-20150901072602

The reason that I stand firm that Raven can't/shouldn't be anyone other than Yang's mom is because the show hasn't made mention of or hinted to Yang having any other relative we haven't met yet.

One thing that the crew has actually done well is making sure to mention or hint to the existence of a character's relative before introducing that character, so it doesn't feel like that relative just comes out of nowhere when they show up.


 * Summer Rose - In the Red Trailer, we got to see that the altar Ruby visited said "Summer Rose, Thus Kindly I Scatter." So, we knew that Ruby had a relative named Summer Rose long before the scene where Yang tells her story in Burning the Candle.


 * Qrow Branwen - He's mentioned in the very first episode of the series, and Ruby outright says he's her uncle. At the end of volume 1, Qrow sends a message to Ozpin. Early on in volume 2, Ozpin and Ironwood talk about something that Qrow has told them. In Burning the Candle, Yang mentions that their uncle, Qrow, saved them from the Beowolves.


 * Taiyang Xiao Long - He has also been mentioned since early in volume 1. Early in volume 1, Ruby said these two things: "I don't think dad would approve of all the boys, though" and "UGH, you sound like dad!" In volume 2, when Ruby is talking to Penny, Ruby mentions that she knows what it's like to have a protective father. Yang made mention of their father during her story in Burning the Candle. And then we had the scene where Ruby and Yang open the package containing Zwei, and Yang reads a letter from their father.


 * Winter Schnee - They went out of their way to make mention of "Hey, audience, Weiss has a sister named Winter!" when Weiss was in the CCT.

We've been told by the show that Yang's real mom is out there somewhere and that she has been looking for her mom ever since she was a kid. We also saw her interrogating Junior for info related to her search in the Yellow Trailer.

If she had another sister, a cousin, or an aunt who was gonna show up, they would've made some effort to mention or hint to that relative being someone we would meet, just like how they, like I said, went out of their way to mention Winter. The hint wouldn't have even had to be obvious like "Okay, but what if I had another sister lol?" It could've been subtle.

Remember in volume 1, when they were having the "big sleepover" the night before the initiation, Yang said to Blake "I like your bow. It goes great with your... pajamas!" Miles said that they wrote that line specifically to say to the audience "Isn't it weird that she's going to sleep with her bow on?" Subtle hint that made sense after the fact.

You can dig through everything that was said and done in volume 2. There have been no mentions or hints that would point to Yang having an aunt, a cousin, or another sister who we'll meet. All there is, is a story about her desperately searching for her real mother.

From a writing standpoint, judging by their style of writing so far, Raven being Yang's mother is the only thing that makes sense.

Raven and Qrow could be twins. In fact, there's the symbol that Yang drew and the symbol that appeared behind Qrow in the flashback.

First of all, the symbol behind Qrow was facing the opposite direction of the symbol Yang drew.

Second of all, why would Yang draw Qrow's symbol while telling a story that completely revolves around her desperately searching for her mom to the point where she almost got herself and Ruby killed?

It's entirely possible that Qrow and Raven have the same symbol, but mirrored, to form a pair of winged eyes. That would match up with them being twins.

By the way, Yang is 17, not 18 or 19.