Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-84.101.90.7-20171119185801/@comment-4010415-20171119210447

Hmm. That does make sense. Though, it seems like CRWBY tried to signal to us that they allude to Hugin and Munin instead. In Burning the Candle, the chalkboard that Yang draws on has a quote from Grímnismál along the top. Grímnismál is a poem about Hugin and Munin, and the quote that was on the chalkboard was this:

"Hugin and Munin fly each day over the spacious earth. I fear for Hugin, that he come not back, yet more anxious am I for Munin."

Hugin and Munin are a pair of ravens who fly across the world to gather info for Odin and report back to him. He even gave them the gift of speech so they could talk to him. In Volumes 1-3, Qrow's job was to travel Remnant to gather info for Ozpin and report that info to him. Raven also seems to have her own way of easily gathering info.

In the poem, Odin fears that Hugin won't come back home. Raven left and never returned.

Yet, Odin is more worried about Munin. While Raven is still doing well, Qrow has turned to alcoholism and lives with the worry that his Semblance will cause bad things to happen to the people he cares about.

And we know that Qrow can actually transform into a crow, so that could also lend to his allusion to Munin, an actual literal raven. (The difference between a raven and a crow is inconsistent, and they're both of the Corvid family)

With Grímnismál and The Last Rose of Summer (Summer Rose's allusion), it seems Team STRQ's theme could be poetry allusions, just as Team RWBY's is fairy tale allusions, Team JNPR's is allusions to people who dressed as the opposite sex, Team CRDL's is bird names, and Team CFVY's is names that reference sweets (Fox's is fox hunter's pie, Velvet's is red velvet cake).