Qrow and Raven Theories!!!

Okay so this has been pointed out in the fandom before, but in “burning the candle” we have this:

It’s fuzzy af on my computer, but essentially the blackboard says

“Hugin and Munin fly each dayover the spacious earth.

I fear for Hugin, that he come not back, yet more anxious am I for Munin.”



A lot of people have pointed out that this is based on a poem about two mythological ravens, named Hugin and Munin.

As we know, Team STRQ is based on poetry (much in the same way that team RWBY is fairy tales and team JNPR is historical cross dressers). The poems about Hugin and Munin are all these little dark things about these two ravens being sent out by their master, Odin, to find people who are dead/dying:

“Two ravens flew from Hnikar’s shoulders; Huginn to the hanged and Muninn to the slain”



So, get this: Qrow and Raven’s semblance is VERY POSSIBLY some sort of death premonition thing. The more I think about it, the more it makes a LOT of sense.

(I’ll put the rest under the cut because there’s going to be a a lot of pictures and things)

As we’ve seen with Weiss and Winter, siblings can definitely have the same semblance. And that would explain a large part of why Raven is angst mom #1 and Qrow spends his whole life drunk, because they both have the literal worst semblance ever. And now, the evidence:

Qrow is always there to swoop in right at everyone’s dying hour.

Exhibit A: Yang and that time she took Ruby out in a wagon, and was attacked by Grimm.

Exhibit B: He shows up just in time to save Amber from Cinder.

Exhibit C: Qrow is somehow able to confirm Pyrrha’s death? Even though she’s dust now and he wasn’t there to see it???

Also there’s the whole thing with Qrow spending the entirety of season three like “Yep, this is bad, bad stuff is happening, everyone is going to die, ya’ll are doomed”, because aside from the other clues like crime stopping and stuff, he could SENSE all the death that was going to happen.

(Not to mention season 3 episode 6 when he’s super salty about Amber being alive. Why? Because she was supposed to die, and they’re all messing with that in a very artificial way. Why did he save her? Because Ozpin naturally has this death-seer guy monitoring the maidens so no one evil kills them. Bonus: Qrow is super rude to Pyrrha in this episode because he obvs doesn’t want to get attached to this kid who has like a week left).

Even Raven has done that swooping-in-to-save-dying-person-thing, while Yang was getting her ass kicked by Neo on the train.

And that actually starts to make a lot of sense with Raven’s character, too.

The “don’t expect that kindness again” warning she sent to Yang wasn’t entirely her being an asshole. As Qrow said, Raven has “an interesting way of looking at the world”, that we can guess probably has something to do with death and saving people. Her warning was literally that Yang was supposed to die there, and Raven saving her was messing with destiny.

Ahh, yes, destiny. The RWBY buzzword of late. So picture this. Death is destiny in this universe. If someone is destined to die young, then they are sure as hell gonna die young, and Raven and Qrow know about it. So Summer Rose, their friend and their leader, was destined to die, and they knew about it all along. So they try super hard to protect her, and eventually they come to terms with the fact that destiny is destiny and saving her just isn’t possible as, say, the attempts on her life grow more frequent or something. But, get this, okay?

YANG.

YANG XIAO LONG IS DESTINED TO DIE YOUNG. And, then, Raven took off on her because she doesn’t want to get emotionally attached to someone with that fate again. But Yang’s her daughter, so she can’t help but follow her around and protect her sometimes. And then Qrow saved her that one time as a kid, because she’s his niece and no matter what Raven thinks he’s going to try again and protect her. She’s already been saved by them twice.

I think the attempts on her life are just going to get worse and worse from here on.

(I’m fairly new to the FNDM, so sorry if someone has already pointed this out! I’m just really excited.)

Bottom line:

- Save Yang 2k16

- Raven and Qrow can see death and it’s the literal worst

- I NEED A TEAM STRQ SIDE SERIES AAAHH