Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-4010415-20151213031749

13th madman wrote:

If Raven is a maiden, then she might not have acquired the power by the normal method, or there was some side effect to acquiring it. It would explain how smiley teenage Raven from the future became the somewhat scary one from No Brakes, as well as Qrow's apparent attitude towards her. I don't think becoming a maiden alone could explain it I don't think his atittude is toward her. I'm pretty sure his attitude is toward how Maidens are chosen. He probably thinks it's bullshit how a chosen Maiden can be completely random. That's why my guess is that Raven being chosen was random from the previous Maiden thinking of someone who's unsuitable.

Raven had just started a family. She got married, she had a baby. Her life was going to be happy. But then she got randomly chosen to be a Maiden, and that ripped everything apart. Staying with her husband and child would put them in danger and possibly keep her from performing her duty at the fullest extent. Therefore, she had to leave, and that tore him and Taiyang apart.

And Qrow just keeps getting torn about because he knows exactly why Raven left. He has all the answers Yang has been looking for, but he cannot tell her. He's not allowed to tell her. She almost got herself killed searching for those answers, and all he could do was save her and take her and Ruby back home, all while biting his tongue and holding back the secret!

That is why Qrow is bitter about the whole Maiden thing. He feels it's unfair and bullshit that Raven getting chosen as Maiden has caused this much pain in the people he cares about.