Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.247.91.107-20140511154823/@comment-10390252-20140803132255

I'd be really intersted to learn of the back-story of Ruby's conception. Did Summer and Yang's dad have an affair? Did Yang's mother die and Summer was her father's second wife?

One weird possibility is this: Huntsmen and Huntresses do not marry. By long tradition, they are considered married to the job and it is considered unfitting to split their loyalty from the people of Remnant to a blood family. However, being chosen to bear a Huntsman's child or father a Huntress's child is culturally considered a great honour (even the prospective man or woman's partners will share that honour). Summer chose Yang's father for one reason or another.

The question to answer then is this: Did Yang's family take in Ruby after Summer's death or, by the same tradition of being 'married to the job', does the Hunter or Huntress always give the child to their mate to raise?