Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-173.17.22.10-20160214180746/@comment-4010415-20160214204535

Not to mention that the RWBY crew actually made fun of the "Qrow is Ruby's real dad" theory in the recent livestream, so I'm guessing they find that theory as ridiculous as some of us do.

Ruby has skills with a scythe because Qrow taught her how to use a scythe. She outright said that she was garbage at using her scythe until Qrow taught her how.

As for Penny's sword, literally all Ruby did was stab the Nevermore and then hold the sword like she's seen other people hold swords. She didn't have her scythe, and she couldn't do jack shit to the Nevermore unarmed, so she improvised and winged it.