Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-168.213.7.119-20160216153447/@comment-4148456-20160229192142

71.186.225.143 wrote: I would love for them to explain the whole post crdit scene in season 2. The way Qrow spoke of her in season 3 was that she was dangerous and distant but in the post credit she was smiling and telling Yang they needed to talk. I hope they explain in season 4, if that was a dream or was her mother recruiting her.

I'm kinda disappoint that that is their semblance. I always figured that semblance should be help with them in battle. You cant really do anything significant in battle when changing into a crow/raven. Unless you're running away or scouting/ease dropping.

Idk, to me it's just meh. I feel the same way when people say that Jaune's semblance should be a huge shield, that sounds really lame to me.

If you read (or watched) Harry Potter, then you'll know about Animagi. Notable Animagi included Minerva McGonagall, Rita Skeeter, Peter Pettigrew, James Potter, and Sirius Black. While McGonagall was a registered Animagus, the rest that I've listed weren't; even if they were, not many people would really give a second thought to a fairly common animal happening by. McGonagall would assume her cat form when she wished to avoid recognition; Peter lived in his rat form for more than a decade in order to dupe the rest of the world into believing he was dead; Sirius used his dog form to escape from Azkaban, evade subsequent capture, and seek revenge on Peter; and Rita snooped for juicy stories by disguising herself as a beetle and eavesdropping without being detected.

My point?

Qrow's semblance might not directly help him in battle, but it grants him an advantage as a spy. He can scout the land and dig up information without people recognizing him. With this trick up his sleeve, Qrow can (at least sometimes) forgo the falsified identification documents, the psuedonyms, the human DNA (assuming that Remnant is advanced in the forensic sciences), the need to change clothes every five minutes to throw potential enemies off his trail, and the Skyrim-style sneak. Crows aren't rare birds, so they don't raise much suspicion (as opposed to, say, a macaw that happens to be flying around in Alaska). On top of that, he has the edge of flight, allowing him to travel great distances in a shorter amount of time than a human on foot and to get the aerial scope of a situation.