So, I’ve been thinking about this part of the Qrow vs Tyrian scene recently and a question popped into my head “Who is Qrow imitating?” because it’s clear he’s no brawler and the look on his face before he goes to hit Tyrian is ‘It’s worth a shot’ so I watched his fighting pattern:

He goes right, left, and right all aming at Tyrian’s head to disorent him, then picks up his right foot to give him particulary hard kick(that looks more like a stomp) to the gut.

So, subjectively speaking it would make since that he picked this up from Taiyang at some point along the way and that’s where I started. We only have him fighting Yang in their spar, but even then I think that’s enough to determine Qrow didn’t pick this up from him.

Tai tends to move around on the battlefeild a lot, he swings wide and uses sweeping kicks as well, which doesn’t match up to Qrow’s closed off hooks. I took Yang off the list as well because not only did Tai teach her but she tends to fly around the battlefield far more than her father.



Immediatly, the first brawler I thought of that Qrow could’ve picked this up from was James. Yes, he uses his guns before he goes fisticuffs, but he’s cirtainly no amateur. So I took a look at his fighting style that RWBY 7 provided us:

James blocks Watts’ attack, then swings right, left, right, left all at his head, then after Watts lands a hit to him he takes a heavy left swing into his gut.

It’s far rougher than Taiyang’s hits and lines up very well with the style Qrow is using. (The exeption being on Qrow’s final swing he upercuts while James sticks to his straight on tactic.)

I, in all honesty, had a point here but It’s been like a week since I started this post because the gifs werent working so I took a break and forgot about it, and no longer remember what else I was going to say. I can, however, tell you that I am very intrested in the idea that James showed Qrow some moves/Qrow picked them up from watching James.