User blog comment:WeissSchnee/Character Blog: Yang Edition/@comment-7472785-20130621073504/@comment-80.89.94.21-20130621085629

FWIW, if either is an orphan, I think it's Ruby. I'm still betting that the stone on Beacon Cliffs is a memorial of some sort, possibly for Ruby's birth parents.

My own theory at the moment is that Ruby's people are something of a 'wild' tribe, who normally keep seperate from mainstream civilisation in reservations. Ruby learnt all her fighting tricks from her parents and then, when she was orphaned, she was adopted by Yang's very, very urban family who found the girl a bit tough to handle. At a young age (no more than 12 at the time), Ruby was already immensely independent, a born survivor and was filled with a child's sense of injustice and outrage. By the time she was eligible for the School, she was already spending lots of time on her own, continuing to hone her skills.

Yang, a cheerful and outgoing soul whom one would not normally associate with becoming a warrior, was inspired by her younger 'sis' to focus her mind and heart. She has secretly become a vigilante in the style of Black Canary or Huntress. Naturally, her focus is on the black-haired witch who was apparently responsible for the murder of her beloved sister's family.

Ruby has found out just what changes her inadvertant example have wrought on Yang when, upon her return from her rededication of her life to avenging her parents at Beacon Cliffs, she returns to town to find Yang smashing up a Yazuka-owned nightclub.