Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.218.70.24-20150317164438/@comment-4010415-20150412061222

I kinda figured that Ruby kept her mom's surname because Summer and Taiyang weren't married when they had her.

A lot of people do that in real life, y'know? The bastard child gets the mom's name.

It's likely that Taiyang and Yang's mom were married when they had Yang, and thus, Yang took the name that the two of them married into. Now, if Yang's mother is Raven, the reason Raven is listed as Raven Branwen is because, when she left Taiyang, she also left the marriage. Plenty of women revert their surname back to the one they were born with when they leave a marriage, for various, often personal, reasons.

Sometimes it's because they hate the husband, but I don't think that's the case with Raven. She probably resolved that she would never be able to return to Taiyang and their marriage, so she left the marriage behind because it pretty much didn't exist anymore. What's the point of still saying you're married to someone if you can never go back home to them and the relationship, y'know?