Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35447933-20180627105853

Not much is said about team STRQ's past, but small things said throughout the show led me to speculate a complex theory. It does contradict comments made by creators, which will be disregarded for the time being. These two videos also contributed to this theory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ1chGzykZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcclpGfuQEs

Part 1- Qrow being Ruby's dad by blood. To sum up the solid facts, Yang was born two years before Ruby, and Raven left sometime after Yang was born. Tai later ended up with Summer and Yang believed she was her mom. Yang also tells Blake that Tai lost two loves, refering to Raven and Summer. So if Tai loved Raven, why move on to Summer so fast and have a kid with her, especially when having to raise the child and constant reminder of his first love? It could be that he was with Summer and had Ruby with her, then left Summer, maybe because of his semblance or missions for Ozpin, or that Summer left him for those or other reasons.

Part 2- Summer's death. Not much is known about her death, so everything is pure speculation. It was mentioned that STRQ did missions for Ozpin. It's possible that Qrow was with Summer on her final job, and witnessed her end. She may not even be dead, but suffered a fate worse than death instead. Dead or not, she wasn't coming back and Qrow felt responsible for not being able to protect/save her or guilty if his semblance had a hand in it. A possible support of this is when Qrow is poisoned and he says "She's not coming Tai," which may refer to Summer's death. Salem's group also mentioned that they had dealt with silver eyed warriors before, and since it is a rare trait with Summer and Ruby as the only confirmed two, it is possible that Summer is the one they dealt with.

Tying the two theories together has no basis in given facts. After Qrow left Summer, she ended up raising Ruby with Tai and Yang. Later, she goes on the mission with Qrow, dies, and wrecks both Tai and Qrow, who both loved her. Tai shuts down, and Qrow picks up the slack watching over the kids, but messed up over Summer's death in his own way, he drinks way to much and refuses to admit to Ruby that he is actually her dad, and that he was involved in Summer's death. Her loss is also why his STRQ picture is covered in tears and why there is a watermark from a glass over Summer's face. Out of responsibility, he trained Ruby to use a scythe like him.

That covers the basics of it. This is just a random theory, but I would like to hear any thoughts on it. 