Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-27082610-20180103001047/@comment-26397825-20180103002907

You're the only one who gets annoyed, but I do agree with your point. It's why I ignore the conversations; everyone conveniently forgets that 'family' didn't start with Tai for Raven. It started with Qrow, her twin, and became an entire bandit camp. Tai and Yang are blips in the radar compared to the dozens of people waiting for her to come home and protect them from Huntsmen.

And then she became the leader of said bandit camp, and they were suddenly not only her family, but also her responsibility. She is the one responsible for whether they live or die. A man who would never join her camp doesn't really matter to her when compared to the people she left to learn to protect.

Also, this whole thing about leaving Yang behind - has anyone ever thought it wasn't to protect Yang, or because she didn't care about Yang, but because she was still protecting her real family, the bandits? Think about it - she has Yang, takes Yang to the camp with her, word gets back to Tai, Tai comes in and beats up the bandits and takes Yang because "A bandit camp is no place to raise a baby". She literally decided to skip steps 2-5 because it'd result in the same thing anyway; Yang being raised by Tai on Patch. At least this way her true family, the ones she lived with for 17 years, her friends and the people she considers brother and sisters and cousins and aunts and uncles that have raised her, aren't injured.

I think if Tai wasn't in the picture, and if Qrow hadn't left the tribe to stay with them but still kept up sporadic contact with Raven, she would have taken Yang and raised her as a bandit. She did offer a chance of being family to Yang, after all - when Yang was an adult and allowed to make her own choices, so Tai had no reason to come in and destroy her camp to take his child out of an 'unsuitable environment'.