This theory was going to be for the AHTChallenge but I chose to do a different theory that was more unlikely. I had already made this one though so I am posting it any way.

Eyes in RWBY are pretty important in that they signify many things. Examples of this is Ruby's silver eyes signifying her being a warrior, and Blake's eyes which look very cat like hinting at her being a cat faunus, before it was confirmed. The color of the character's eyes usually means something, and one of their parents have the same color eyes as them. Especially if there eye color deviates from the rest of the characters color scheme.

Examples of this are Nora who has lightning blue eyes which deviates from her pink color scheme. The lightning blue eyes symbolising her semblance relating to electricity. Although we do not know her parents yet which is the important part being evidence for this theory. Which brings us to my other example Yang. We do not know what her purple eyes mean but they might just be a mix of Raven and Tai's eye colors. But when her eyes turn red she is using her semblance an has the the same eye color as Raven. The eye color of the character being shared with at least one parent is also true for Blake too.

Blake has the same yellow colored eyes as her mother, her father also has yellow eyes.

So Emerald has red eyes which is a deviation from her green color scheme. There are only a three other characters that I can think of that have red eyes at any point Raven, Qrow, and Yang (who are all related to each other). So based on our current knowledge one of them must be related to Emerald because they are the only other people who have red eyes. Based on how Emerald looks she is at least the same age as Yang. Making it impossible for Yang to be her mother. I don't think that Raven is her mother because she would be with Tai or pregnant with Yang when Emerald was born. But Qrow could easily be her father, seeing as he is the lone wolf type who probably went on solo missions after graduation.

Based on how Qrow describes being defeated by the innkeeper's skirt length, I think that he has had quite a few one night stands with innkeepers and waitresses on past missions. I mean the color scheme of the innkeeper shown when he is describing his mission to Ruby was green, white, and black. Similar to the colors that we see in Emeralds outfit.

This similarity in outfit color could be Rooster Teeth telling us that Emerald is Qrow's daughter indirectly, and yes I know that the innkeeper that Qrow is talking about could not be Emerald's mother. That is why I said that Rooster Teeth was telling us indirectly.

Qrow being Emerald's father would also fit into what we know of Emerald's backstory. Which is that she was a thief living on the streets just barely getting by untill she joined up with Cinder.

So what happened to her parents?

Well if one of them was Qrow then he would not have even known that Emerald was born. As for her mother there are many reasons for her not being around. She could have died will giving birth to Emerald, been killed by Grimm will Emerald escaped, or even just died from a sickness when Emerald was young. Emerald's mother could have even just not been able to take care of her. In any of these cases Qrow would not be around to take care of Emerald and even if he was there he probably could not take care of her with his bad luck semblance.

All of this would result in Emerald being on the streets having to steal to survive. Causing her to develop her semblance of causing people to hallucinate what she wants them to see making it easer for her to survive.

Qrow being Emerald's father would make for an interesting turn of events, and if they both found out this is true it would also probably start a conflict between them that could also be interesting.

So, are you glad that this was not a theory about Qrow being Ruby's dad.

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