Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20161231141844/@comment-4010415-20161231235650

Deltaslug wrote:

Taiyang and Raven get married. Yang comes along a little later.

At some point after Yang is born, Summer and Qrow could have hooked up.

At around same time, Raven leaves.

Ruby gets her mother's last name because Summer and Qrow never got married. Honestly, this would lead to only a 1 year difference in age between Yang and Ruby, when they're 2 years apart.

My explanation for how Summer and Tai ended up having Ruby so soon after Raven leaving is that we don't know what their relationship was like before all of that. Tai and Summer could've dated at some point beforehand, which would mean that feelings for each other would already be there and simply need to be rekindled through something like raising an infant together.

I think it was definitely a few years after Ruby was born that Summer disappeared or died. Yang remembers her, so she must've been a few years old at least, and Ruby told her grave "I miss you too", which she couldn't really say unless she has at least some memory of her.

Off-topic, buuut...

The brother gods. Think they're brothers because of the Grimm brothers, who were among the first people to create written records of fairy tales?