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Arkantos95 wrote: Why fight for a cause you have no reason to believe in?

And for the last, goddamn time, the tribe is her family. Qrow and Yang are not, because they made that choice. What evidence do you have that she'd sacrifice the tribe to save herself? With everything she'd seen and learned under Ozpin's tutelage, Raven was a fool to think she could back out, Salem would've come for her eventually. And by the time she did, there might've been no one left to protect Raven from Salem's wrath.

It's even worse than Vegeta during the first Broly movie, he thought it was useless to try and stop Broly and couldn't understand why the Z fighters were risking their lives trying. At least he didn't try siding with Broly hoping to save her own skin, yet he did nothing while his own son was getting pummeled by the maniac.

As for the whole family argument, if she really cared that much about them she would've struck down Yang for daring to harm them outside the camp. Heck if she cared so little about Yang she would've killed her for trying to stop her from taking the Relic, for at that point she would've outilved her usefulness. But if she had, she wouldn't have lived long to celebrate her hollow victory, for both Ozpin and Salem would've hunted her down at that point.

You seem to believe the Raven seen in Volume 4 is the real Raven, yet she herself has constantly proven otherwise. She was just using the tribe hoping that Salem would leave her alone as long she wasn't fighting for Ozpin. Though that wouldn't have lasted forever, and in time the would've been slaughtered by Salem getting to Raven, who'd have no one left to protect her at that point.