the notion that Qrow might be Ruby’s ‘real’, biological father has been around since he first showed up in volume 3, and in this discussion (which i’ll be sticking under a read more as common courtesy because posts like this inevitably get really long when you have to tackle a lot of factors) i’ll be going over why it’s not the case - based on Word of God and evidence in the show itself, as well as deconstructing the supposed ‘proof’ that gets cited to support the idea (read: taken out of context and twisted around to support the idea)

1. Word of God says ‘no’

Monty confirmed in 2014 that Ruby and Yang are half-sisters to different mothers (in response to a theory that Summer Rose is a time travelling Yang – the early RWBY fandom got weird) https://twitter.com/montyoum/status/492070189731565568

Barbara later echoed the statement in the RWBY Volume 3 livestreams, talking about how she loves reading all the zany theories fans come up with, and bringing ‘Qrow is Ruby’s father’ as one specifically that she doesn’t think is right.

It’s clear that the intent is that Qrow and Ruby are unrelated by blood.



“But they could be lying/misleading us”

They have never outright lied about RWBY before – if there is a question they don’t want to answer, it’ll either be ignored or joked about (for example, in a Facebook Q&A in 2015, people asked if Ironwood was half robot due to his glove covering his - what we now know to be robotic - hand. They said he was a big Michael Jackson fan, making a joke out of it and not answering the question directly). Monty answered this question directly – Ruby and Yang are half-sisters. Not cousins. So that’s Word of God, canon. They’re half-sisters.



2. Ruby’s connection to Qrow

“Ruby looks like Qrow”

No, she doesn’t. The only things they have in common are dark hair and a pale complexion (but Ruby is far paler than Qrow, and about as pale as Yang). Ruby doesn’t look like Taiyang because she is a dead ringer for Summer Rose in terms of facial appearance and hair colour (which is different from Qrow’s – Qrow has dark grey hair, while Summer and Ruby have very very dark red hair).

Similar, her dress sense is more than likely inspired by Qrow’s fashion sense, she hasn’t inherited a genetic preference for capes (especially as she’s clearly wearing the cape in reference to Summer, not Qrow), don’t be ridiculous.



”Qrow has the same colour scheme as Ruby”

Ignoring that colour schemes don’t mean anything because that’s just up to personal preference (like dress sense, it’s not genetic), this is also just plain untrue. In the volume Qrow was introduced (and when this argument first popped up), Ruby’s colour scheme was red and black. Qrow’s, meanwhile, is essentially black and white (with red as an auxiliary).

Under this logic, this of course means that Raven is actually Ruby’s other biological parent - which makes perfect sense because her hair is also black and red, like Ruby’s, and she’s far more pale than Qrow.



Ruby had the same colour scheme as Raven, Qrow’s sister, back in the first three volumes, while Qrow had the same colour scheme as Blake (but with a different auxiliary colour - red instead of purple) – in addition, Weiss had Summer’s colour scheme (primarily white) and Yang had Taiyang’s, making her the only one to line up with someone she’s actually related to.

“Ruby wields a scythe just like Qrow, and he trained her”

Weapon preferences aren’t an inherited thing (under that logic, Qrow is Blake’s father too, as her weapon is specifically classed as a Variant Chain Ballistic Scythe), nowhere in the show do we see characters having inherited weapon preferences from their parents. So Ruby choosing to wield a weapon similar to someone who has been an active part of her life since she was small, and active in the field of work she hopes to pursue, doesn’t mean anything other than that she looks up to Qrow – and he trained her because he’s close to the family (having been on the same team).

A scythe wielder training someone he knows to wield a scythe doesn’t mean they’re related.

“Ruby and Qrow have the same Aura colour – they HAVE to be related”

First off, no they don’t



Ruby’s aura is bright red (image from 3x06), Qrow’s is shown to be two different colours in separate shots (images from 3x07), but still darker than Ruby’s. It’s unclear which is the mistake – but the colour in the first seems to match his cape, which is darker than the red Ruby uses.

Second – Aura colour doesn’t mean anything; Pyrrha had a bright red Aura

but she’s not related to Ruby. Aura is the manifestation of the soul; so it’s more than likely going to match a character’s colour preference, it’s a reflection of themselves. And souls aren’t genetic (unless you’re a Schnee with their freaky hereditary semblance). So even if Qrow does have a similar Aura colour, that does not mean anything.

“Raven and Summer both have dark hair, but Yang has light hair like Taiyang. If Tai was Ruby’s father, she’d be blonde too. Genetically, it makes more sense for Qrow to be Ruby’s father.”

We’ll ignore that, in fiction, genetic probability is often ignored for the sake of symbolism or just what looks cool (see every anime protagonist with bright neon hair colours when their entire family look like normal human beings) – in fact it’s pretty common in this show already for a character to look far more like one parent than the other (Ruby’s a dead ringer for Summer, Ren looks a lot like his dad with his mother’s colour scheme, Weiss and Winter both take after their mother, Blake looks a lot like Kali but has more of her dad’s colour scheme, Yang is actually nearly identical to Raven in her youth but has Tai’s colour scheme for the most part) and go straight into the (really really simplified) science lesson:

To begin with – Alleles. An allele, to put it simply, is a name for a gene variant. Every gene has multiple variants, most are benign and don’t make a difference beyond changing the phenotype (physical appearance, though that’s really boiling it down) if at all. Sometimes harmful variants (often called ‘mutations’ but that’s really simplifying it as they’re not always ‘new’ mutations and can simply be carried down a family line until manifesting) will be in the genome and can cause permanent conditions such as Cystic Fibrosis or Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

We inherit two sets of chromosomes from our birth parents. So we get one copy of every gene (more or less, again, keeping things simple) from each parent. And this is where you will probably have heard of ‘Dominant’ and ‘Recessive’ genes. The correct terminology, as you might have guessed, is Dominant and Recessive alleles.



A Dominant allele will always be expressed over a Recessive allele, unless there are no Dominant alleles, in which case the Recessive allele (and the phenotype it encodes) will be expressed.

So bringing things back to RWBY – Yang has blonde hair like her father, while Raven has dark hair.

I’m going to use a diagram called a Punnett Square to demonstrate how this works. A Punnett Square is a simplified diagram showing inheritance probability – the chance of the offspring of any two individuals inheriting a particular arrangement of alleles.

In reality, blondness is a recessive trait; meaning Taiyang has two copies of a recessive gene encoding hair colour – signified in this diagram with the lower case b.

So any children Taiyang has will definitely inherit one of these recessive alleles.

Yang’s birth mother, Raven Branwen, must also have one of these recessive alleles for Yang to be blonde. As Raven herself is not blonde (and is therefore a carrier of the recessive trait), she must also have a dominant allele, signified in the diagram with an upper case B.

So filling in the square

we see that two of the four combinations have both recessive alleles – meaning there is a 50% chance that any child that Raven and Tai could have had could be blond (homozygous –two of the same allele), and a 50% chance that they would instead have Raven’s dark hair (heterozygous –two different alleles).

So from this, because we know Taiyang’s alleles for hair colour are recessive, we can assume that Summer carries at least one dominant allele encoding for her dark red hair, which Ruby inherited (similarly, blue eyes are another typically recessive trait. That Yang has purple eyes suggests that red eyes are another recessive trait in-universe, meaning Raven has two recessive alleles there – seen in this second Punnett Square depicting inheritance of those alleles

showing a 100% chance that every child of theirs would have purple eyes, as the traits would be co-recessive - neither more dominant than the other).

We don’t know what Yang’s maternal grandparents looked like, but we can assume one at the very least carried a recessive blond allele like Raven does. This means there is a minimum 50% chance that Qrow, Raven’s twin brother, inherited that same recessive allele from that parent (as non-identical twins, like most full-blooded siblings, have a 50% chance of inheriting the same allele from a particular parent).

We don’t know Summer’s genotype, so we don’t know if she was homozygous or heterozygous for dark red hair and silver eye alleles, as the whole thing is a 50% chance rate, but Ruby is identical to Summer and possesses those traits, meaning those alleles are Dominant.

So then we get into the potential fathers – now Taiyang’s hair and eye colour alleles are both recessive, so Summer passing on her dominant alleles means a 50% (if heterozygous) minimum chance that those children would look like Summer. Qrow on the other hand, while possessing a recessive trait when it comes to eye colour (so same chance of passing on Silver Eyes as with Tai), does not when it comes to hair colour. Qrow has at least one allele for expressing dark (gray) hair, and that is presumably dominant as it would be in reality; however Ruby definitely has Summer’s dark red hair allele, meaning if Qrow is her biological father, he did not pass that gene on or it’s not as dominant as the dark red hair allele (as there is no sign of co-dominance where both traits are expressed to a degree).

What this means is that, based on hair and eye colour (the traits normally cited when it comes to this subject), there would be no genetic basis for arguing one way or the other, because Summer’s traits are dominant, and Tai and Qrow both carry recessive traits. So this argument is moot.



Now, if I were to joke around, I could say that because Ruby, following the time skip, has grown to have a figure more like Yang does, they must have gotten those traits from the same side of the family. However, we can see that Raven is quite slight, she’s not as developed as Yang is (and we haven’t seen Summer to know either way), so it’s more reasonable to assume that those physical attributes come from Taiyang’s side of the family. So while I personally wouldn’t say there’s any argument that could be made using genetics (simply because we don’t know enough about Qrow or Summer’s genotypes), that could be used to suggest Tai would be more likely. Especially as, with Occam’s Razor meaning the solution with the least number of assumptions is the most likely to be correct, Taiyang has no dominant traits that could interfere with the expression of Summer’s alleles, while Qrow potentially could, but we have to assume on that score.

And just to close this little journey into science out, I’m going back to earlier in saying that genetics shouldn’t really be taken into consideration, it’s highly unlikely the writers were thinking that in-depth about it, and the show’s relationship with genetics in general is shaky at best. Just look at the Faunus – from what we’re told, we can actually put together that humans and Faunus are the exact same species at a genetic level (though considered separate societally), with the only difference being a single allele (and for Faunus-human offspring to have a higher chance of being Faunus, the allele expressing Faunus traits is dominant), and that they have essentially the entire animal kingdom in their genes (for two Faunus with different animal traits to be able to produce offspring with an utterly different animal trait than the parents), all on a single genetic pathway activated by a single gene, for a trait that can be manifested anywhere on the body. That’s not possible unless magic is involved (which to be fair is likely but I doubt this is the reasoning).

Science lesson over.

”Qrow acts more like a father to Ruby than Taiyang does”

Well first off, this is an unfair claim to make, as Ruby and Taiyang have only shared one scene together (where he had fallen asleep at her bedside waiting for her to wake up, I might add, and after she wakes up he’s concerned, doting, goes to get her tea - that’s pretty damn parental), so we don’t really get an idea of how close they are. While Qrow and Ruby have had multiple scenes together simply because that’s the way narrative has gone.



Tai leaving the room and looking angry at Qrow for asking for alone time is often used as ‘proof’ of this argument, that Tai is angry at Qrow for being an irresponsible parent who only comes in when it suits him. When all it really is, is a concerned father whose daughter has just woken up from a coma and he’s understandably worried about her (and we know he’s overprotective of Ruby; as per her conversation with Penny in volume 2) and so not telling her what precisely she did on the tower because it’s something to do with Summer (who is, y’know, dead, for reasons almost certainly tied to her Silver Eyes, so Tai wanting to avoid the subject for fear of history repeating is understandable), and so his anger at Qrow is a) because he wants to be by Ruby’s side as she’s still recovering and b) because he knows that Qrow is going to tell Ruby what she did (and so encourage her to run off and potentially get hurt again) and is kicking him out of the room so he can’t stop it (and Taiyang admits to stopping Qrow from giving Yang information, so we know it’s something he’d do).

Qrow, while having more scenes with Ruby, doesn’t act like a father. He’s a barely functional alcoholic, he’s rarely around, only hangs out with his nieces for a brief period of time (and he wasn’t at Beacon to see them in the first place) and then leaves to do more work – he’s more a fun uncle (because, surprise-surprise, he is an uncle!). And his behaviour in volume 4, following Ruby at a distance and not letting her know he’s there isn’t a particularly fatherly thing to do even when Ruby isn’t well outside her comfort zone. This trend continues in volume 5 as we see he leaves the kids alone to go out drinking and generally spends little time with them.



Now, Qrow has without a doubt been a big part of Ruby’s life since she was young, but that doesn’t mean he’s her father. I mean, in volume 4, episode 4, we see Yang implicitly saying that she sees Qrow as a ‘father-figure’ (as her discussion with Taiyang was echoing points Qrow made in volume 3 episode 4), but we’ve got no idea if Ruby does, but if she does, then it’s still nothing special, because it’s both Ruby and Yang seeing Qrow as a father-figure.

Finally, if Qrow is Ruby’s father, then his comments disparaging Raven’s poor parenting would be incredibly hypocritical of him, as he’d pushed Ruby to leave Yang behind and cross two continents to track down an opponent she has no hope of actually beating in a straight fight. And additionally, Raven does not call him on that, which you’d think she would, instead of trying to defend her actions.

“Ruby acts like Qrow”

Only so far as being reckless when she fights, rushing into danger, and that can be chalked up to him training her.

However, Ruby also reflects Taiyang’s more… eccentric traits. He mailed Zwei to the girls at Beacon, Ruby later suggested the team mail themselves to Mountain Glenn.

And this is a nature vs nurture thing; determining how much of someone’s personality comes from their blood relatives and how much of it comes from the environment they’re raised in (and specifically the people they were raised by). As Ruby was raised around both Taiyang and Qrow, her having personality traits reflective of both is understandable, this isn’t proof one way or another.

”The only reason Qrow would care about Ruby is if he was related to her”

This isn’t an argument I’ve actually seen put explicitly like this, but it is very often an Implication when this subject is brought up. The situation is treated like there is no possible way a man could possibly care about a kid he isn’t related to, so he has to be their father. Which is just such nonsense, people can care about other people without being related to them

Found Family is a very popular trope (and given how Qrow talks about the people who raised him, very much in play with Qrow, who was obviously happier with the family he found at Beacon than the bandits he grew up with).

”But he went specifically to look out for Ruby after volume 3, but he’s blood related to Yang. Why would he leave Yang if Ruby wasn’t related to him?”

As harsh as this is gonna sound – Yang wasn’t going anywhere. She was safe at home, while Ruby was heading into the wilds of the world and Qrow had good reason to assume Salem’s agents would be after her.

And as I already went into, you don’t have to be blood to care about people – Ruby is family, regardless of who she’s related to, and Qrow was her teacher.

On top of that, Ruby is a Silver Eyed Warrior – she has this special magic power that can affect Grimm and apparently Cinder too; Qrow is still following Ozpin’s plans after his disappearance/death, so keeping tabs on someone Ozpin had taken an interest in is more than enough to explain that even without the personal connection.

3. Story Elements

Now a big part of the reason this idea of Qrow being Ruby’s father seems to be so popular is that a lot of people seem to be stuck on this idea that it would “be a good twist” or that “it makes sense”. But, I hate to say (not really), it really wouldn’t be and no, it doesn’t.

Another thing, that came up with volume 4, is that people seem to think ‘Bad Luck Charm’, Qrow’s image song, supports the idea, and I’ll get into why that’s not true in this section. So let’s get into this:



”It would be a good twist”

The reason Qrow being Ruby’s father would not be a ‘good twist’ is because there’s no narrative stake on Ruby’s parentage. The most that comes into play with Ruby’s heritage is Summer, which is understandable because of her Silver Eyes. Adding “who’s your daddy” drama would unnecessarily complicate Ruby’s current arc.

One reason I see on occasion on why people wanted this idea to be the case is “so Ruby can inherit Qrow’s shapeshifting magical ability” (this was before we learned such powers came from Ozpin). And that’s really confusing because… Ruby’s already got bloodline magic powers, with her Silver Eyes. She doesn’t need more. Besides, Ruby has wolf imagery (Monty originally designed her to be more ‘wolf-like’, she’s based on Little Red Riding Hood, a story which famously features a wolf, introduced fighting Beowolves, has a pet dog and has ‘circling doggos’ when dazed – 1x08), not bird imagery like the Branwens have.

Honestly, it’s like Yang is being forgotten about. Yang is Qrow’s niece by blood; she’s the Branwen on team RWBY, if anyone would inherit magical bloodline powers related to the Branwens it should be her (though, again, as that was Ozpin magic, it may not be inheritable - and if by some strange twist it is, we haven’t seen it yet, or we have an it’s just manifested differently than ‘turns into a bird’ - her fire abilities are strangely inconsistent to what we consider her ‘semblance’.)



So, narratively, it’s already poor because it’s creating unnecessary family drama and ignoring that RWBY already has a Branwen on the team, so it’s redundant as well.



But it’s also a bad twist because, what changes? In a story with a ‘surprise heritage’ twist, the reason the protagonist doesn’t know this other person is their parent is because that person is often either not around or is kept away. But Qrow has been around for Ruby’s whole life, he’s a welcome part of it, he doesn’t go out of his way to avoid Ruby or Yang. He taught her how to fight, he was a teacher at her school (which means his semblance isn’t so bad that he can’t be around people for long stretches of time, because I know people love to jump on that, ‘oh he can’t let Ruby know because of his semblance, it’s bad luck’ – it obviously can’t be, because otherwise how would he have managed to be a teacher? How would he have managed when he was at school? At most his semblance, in relaxed settings, just means someone occasionally walks into a doorframe or trips over their feet, log falls out of a fire. He’s not that dangerous to be around despite how emo he gets over it and likely takes necessary precautions). So there’s no narrative tension to him telling her, because then what changes? Does she start calling Qrow ‘dad’ and Taiyang ‘uncle Tai’? Does she start calling Yang ‘cousin’? No, of course she doesn’t, because her relationships with them wouldn’t change in the slightest (beyond maybe anger and confusion at being lied to, and that’d pass with time). Or does it make tensions between Taiyang and Qrow worse, and so make it about them instead of Ruby, the main character?

Ultimately, this would just be a cheap, soap opera twist for shock, and ultimately change nothing, it wouldn’t add to Ruby’s narrative. And soap opera drama isn’t necessary, when narrative drama is already happening for Ruby, and all this would do is complicate things for something that ultimately amounts to nothing.

“But it makes more sense for Qrow to be Ruby’s father”

Nope, no, it doesn’t. Because think about it; I mentioned before that this idea would be redundant because Yang’s already the team’s Branwen – and that redundancy is definitely the case here too.

For Qrow to be Ruby’s father, but Ruby unaware, that means that both Yang and Ruby have birth parents they weren’t raised by or initially informed of. We’ve already had the ‘surprise heritage’ twist with Yang’s backstory, and it really stretches disbelief to do near the exact same thing twice in the same story, in the same family.

The blow-up from Yang finding out about Raven nearly got Yang and Ruby killed. And yet even after that, apparently Ruby and Yang were still lied to about Qrow being Ruby’s father. That is a horrific violation of common sense; because what’s stopping the same thing happening a second time if Qrow’s away, Tai dies and then Ruby gets the revelation that Taiyang wasn’t her father and she has to go searching for him? Why not just tell her, to avoid the possibility of that happening? Isn’t that safer than keeping it secret ‘because he’s bad luck’?

Ultimately, it’s redundant, and takes away from Yang’s story by doing the same thing with Ruby (with even less reason to do so). And so then a big part of Yang’s story is made less special.

Now let’s look at some of the reasons this idea is said to make ‘more sense’:

"Taiyang moved on too quickly – for Taiyang to have realistically gotten with Summer within two years, Summer would have to already be pregnant with Qrow’s child and they were only together to take care of their kids”

This is nonsense, which seems to be based in assuming that Taiyang reacted to Raven leaving similarly to how he did with Summer’s death, by shutting down.

But there’s a vast difference between the two – someone leaving is a very different impact to someone being taken away. It still hurts, but there’s less to grieve. So it’s totally realistic for someone to have a bad break up (which is essentially what happened) and then a new relationship sparks with someone else within a year or so (especially as Taiyang and Summer already knew each other from being on the same team; and it’s possible she was around more helping him take care of Yang before it really started – fact of the matter is, we really don’t know much about team STRQ from that time period and what their relationships with each other were like, but we do know that Yang thought of Summer as ‘mom’, meaning she was there pretty early on).

On top of that, Yang explicitly states that the reason for Taiyang’s shutdown/not being around much afterwards is because Summer was the second love he’d lost – indicating that it was the combined impact of Summer’s death and the not-yet-healed wounds of Raven’s departure that caused that. So they very plainly were not just together ‘for the kids’, because Taiyang clearly loved her enough that losing her led to such a devastating response. And in addition, we don’t hear how Summer’s death affected Qrow’s behaviour, if it did at all, so it’s very strange that Taiyang’s devastated reaction is paid attention to if he was only with Summer for the kids, and it was Qrow that Summer loved.

We have absolutely no indication in canon that Qrow and Summer ever saw each other as more than friends. This is just plainly heteronormativity (and specifically the idea that men and women can’t just be friends) and the Pair the Spares trope in action (because Tai and Raven were together, so Qrow and Summer obviously got together too. They couldn’t have just stayed single or anything).

“Summer must have cheated on Taiyang with Qrow, because Ruby looks like Qrow”

While I already debunked Ruby looking like Qrow earlier, I’m exploring this point because this is flagrant character defamation.

We know very little about Summer Rose, but what we do hear is all positive.

So this notion that Summer was an adulterer, that she would and did cheat on someone - cheating being an utterly horrible thing to do to a person - is absurd when there’s nothing about her that we’ve heard that suggests she would do that. And all to satisfy… what exactly? That’s the biggest part of this idea that makes no sense to me, what’s the reason? Why do people like it? Is it because they ship Qrow and Summer (which is… interesting because Qrow has an established character while we know very little about Summer’s character and also she’s dead) and want to push it into canon? Or is it one of the reasons I went into and deconstructed earlier, ‘Ruby getting more magic powers’, ‘Because people can’t love people they’re not related to’, ‘they look alike and so must be related’? Ultimately, there’s really nothing that supports the idea, and a whole lot that goes against it.

"Bad Luck Charm”

Coming back to Qrow’s volume 4 image song. One thing that now gets cited a lot as ‘proof’ is the lines “You and I are not the same/You don’t want the burden of my name”, and taking that to mean “you’re my daughter but it’s better that you don’t know”.

But that line is taken wholly out of context from the rest of the song, and even the rest of the verse it’s in:

“You should trust one thing

take my advice

If you linger close

It’s a hefty price

You and I are not the same

You don’t want the burden of my name”

This verse is a warning – because the line about his name? That’s a reference to Qrow talking about his name in A Much Needed Talk (Volume 4 Episode 8). That he was named after CROWS because they’re a symbol of bad luck. That’s the point of the song in general, it’s a warning to the listener (the song never makes any specific reference to the audience it’s directed at either, so it’s a general warning to anybody, not someone in particular) that he’s bad luck. It’s not some “ooo i’m secretly your father ooo” line in a song that is otherwise constantly about how he’s bad luck.

What that is, taking the line out of context to use as proof, is cherry-picking. Using out of context details that supports your point while ignoring all the rest of the information that contradicts it to push for it.

I can do the same thing with the same song, look:

“I’m a cursed black cat” – Well, I guess this means that Qrow is Blake’s father because she’s a cat Faunus and has a primarily black colour scheme.

“I’m an albatross” – Oh god, Qrow’s is Yang’s father too – she has flight imagery so it must be true.

"I’m a mirror broken” – And Weiss’s father too, because Weiss has mirror imagery which means he’s definitely her father because it’s not like ‘broken mirrors’ are bad luck and that’s what the song is about

Do you see what I mean? If you have to take specific lines and scenes out of context to prove your point, then your point doesn’t exist.

4. “It’s just a theory, stop freaking out about it”

This is something I see in response to pieces attempting to debunk this idea of Qrow being Ruby’s father – that people annoyed at it should stop complaining because “it’s just a theory.”

Now to begin with on this point; the reason people are so annoyed by it is because, despite the Word of God information, nothing in canon supporting it and the only supporting information being either made up or taken out of context, a lot of people are so insistent on it being canon, and refuse to listen when people point out the holes in it.

Secondly, it’s not a theory. A theory is, typically, a logical, intuitive leap based on existing information. Qrow being Ruby’s real father, as I just said, is the exact opposite of that, because it’s based on nothing but misconstrued moments taken out of context, contradicting the existing information and statements from the creators of the show. At that point it’s not even a headcanon – which would be a small idea that isn’t directly contradicted by canon but isn’t necessarily supported by it either. “Qrow is Ruby’s real father” is an AU concept. It’s not a theory, can we please stop pretending that it is.

And ultimately, Qrow can still love Ruby like family even if he’s not related to her by blood (I mean, Summer is Yang’s mom, she raised her, she wanted to be part of Yang’s life, unlike Raven, who is Yang’s mother by blood only), so I don’t see why people are so insistent on Qrow being Ruby’s father in canon, because he doesn’t have to be.

Anyway, that’s that, thanks for reading

