Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20141031232847

I'm going to write up a series of these, since trying to hold discussions about individual characters all together on one page would get a bit too jumbled.

Taiyang has been mentioned on occasion in the show, most notably in Burning the Candle and Field Trip. He has had no spoken dialogue. What little of his personality can be gleaned is restricted to a written letter and statements made by Ruby and Yang. Aside from sending Zwei, he has made contribution to the girls' efforts. He has certainly not done anything so far that can be construed as plot relevant.

Some may argue that because Taiyang is a parent to two of the main characters, this (somehow) makes him an arguable secondary main character. However, think about this. The death of Summer Rose is arguably the driving force behind Ruby choosing to become a Huntress. Meanwhile, learning that Summer Rose was not her mother and the resulting search for (most likely) Raven Branwen is much more likely the reason Yang chose to become a Huntress rather than anything she has volunteered or anything her father could have impacted upon her. That would mean that by comparison to the girls' mothers, Taiyang is left as fairly irrelevant. 