Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4444715-20190406160119/@comment-27745396-20190609070823

Yeah, the bird thing should have had some negative effects or at least make it so that Ozpin did it two Qrow and Raven without asking their permission. Like something along the lines that Ozpin turned them into birds to help the twins to escape from some "they would be dead otherwise" situation. It would make it understable for people to be angry at Ozpin but also give him a justified reason to do so.

On the other hand, they could have gone towards more fairy tail inspirated approach. People turning into birds is a common theme in them after all, Swan Princess and the Six Swans being the ones coming to mind without looking up more examples (the later one is even from Brothers Grimm). Funnily enough, both of these stories the cursed person changed back to human after sunset and was turned back to bird on sunrise, and that could have been an interesting consept to play with in the show.

Or perhaps there could have been an Animorphs type of situation where Raven and Qrow won't be able to turn back to human if they stay in their bird form too long at once. Technically they could still add that part in later volumes, but it would have made more sense if Raven had said it to be case from the start.