Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.247.91.107-20140511154823/@comment-3257939-20150728133620

ChishioKunrin wrote: The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: DiegoAnime3000 wrote: The question is, Kunrin, why did the girls think he was their uncle?

Qrow Branwen. Not Xiao Long, not Rose. In other words, no biological relation to the family, or at least, not one that the girls know of.

"Uncle by familiarity" would explain it though. How did Qrow realize that Ruby and Yang left their house? He probably entered the house only to find it empty. This could mean that Qrow is simply a close friend of Taiyang in the girls' eyes and he regulary paid a visit to check on his friend who had lost his wife and shut down. They may have simply been told that he was their uncle and, being little kids, didn't think to ask such complicated questions. At the time Yang learned the truth she was still quite young and Ruby was even younger obviously. Yang probably followed her dad's lead in calling him her uncle and Ruby would have just taken after her sister in calling Qrow her uncle as well. Even if they were not told of his biological connection, they may have simple presumed there was one or just never contemplated on it at their age. That and...

a) The adults never told Yang and Ruby Qrow's last name.

b) The adults did let Yang and Ruby know Qrow's last name, and the girls didn't think anything of it because they both have different last names but are related.

c) They didn't care about his last name. He's a close friend of their dad's who's really nice to them, acts like an uncle figure, helps take care of and look out for them, and bonds with them.

There's a married couple who're close friends with my parents and went to high school with them, and I refer to them as my aunt and uncle. I have for many years, despite knowing they're just my parents' friends. Or...

Just how Ruby took her mother's last name instead of her father's, Yang and Ruby might have been told that Qrow also took the last name of a parent with no biological relationship his nieces. In fact, that could be how Ruby learned that such thing was allowed and was encouraged by Qrow to do the same thing to honor her mother's memory.