#strq plus yang

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Strq-y doodle

They’re all very young parents and they’ll never get the chance to be very good parents but they all love each other and their kid(s)

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So, low key I've thought for a long time that Qrow (Maybe) and Tai (100% certain on) projected Raven onto Yang and sort of made her a bit of a black sheep within her own home, what's your take?

Well sense you asked for myyyyy take 💖 yes of course 💖 at least a bit (Ruby compared to someone dead and yang compared to someone gone is a lil sibling thing they get to share❤️❤️) BUTTT i ALSO believe EVERYONE in that damn family felt like the black sheep of the family

(You know me I’m always gonna bring everyone into it I LOVEEE interconnected traumas)

Yang is for so many reasons, she’s not treated perfectly like a kid or like an adult, she looks and/or acts like all of team strq but isn’t an enough of a match to any of them, she has to find out she’s not totally related to the sister she’s raising and not at all to the mom she’s mourning, she feels abandoned and unwanted by every adult in the world and only knows she’s loved by Ruby who literally needs her because no one else is doing anything, she’s both the most and least capable, and she has deep rooted problems caused by the absence of people she has to search for in vain

Straight up not having a fun go of it

Ruby is the youngest of a family brought to ruin, she’s the most useless and most out of the loop, she can only be a burden and isn’t given the proper guidance to ever hope to become a functional person, she feels like she missed out on the small era of time where her family was good

She looks exactly like her dead mother she’ll never seen and nothing like the sister she looks up to and has around and wants to be like but can’t be, she’s not even related to the uncle she try’s to emulate who looks a little bit more like her but is purposefully not around much, and she shares nothing with her father other then a fake upbeat attitude and a genetic certainty for mental illness she LOOKS like a black sheep in the family

She doesn’t even get to properly share her dead mom trauma with her sister who’s the only person who could understand her because APPARENTLY yang has some mysterious bio mom EVERYONE ELSE has SOME connection to BUT RUBY!! And she can’t properly share being siblings with yang at all because yangs forced into a caretaker role which forces Ruby into being a burden to her sister which is an awful feeling

Tai was an og odd one out on his team with twins who knew each other for years and then the team leader and then now his family fully had to grow and adjust without him and his children grew up without him and he doesn’t know them like he wants two both of his lovers have left him and he now doesn’t fit into the dynamic between his children or with his old teammate/ ex brother in law/ whatever he even is to qrow anymore

Qrow and Raven are DEF the most DRAMATIC about it

Qrow is SOOOOO obvious and obnoxious about it he’s like ooOooOooo I HAVE to leave I’m a danger to everyone 🥺 I’m still gonna help from a distance and I crave love and connection tho 👀

And like… he IS a danger but still

And also, once his team turned from team to family he definitely became the odd one out for ONE their ALL DATING!!! Then they have kids together so that’s cool! He’s only part of this family through his sister then she leaves! Then it’s through his sisters kid which be feels weird about for sure especially because then summer and tai have a kid without his sister so they’re? Trying to move on? They seem to do their best to treat yang like she’s not his sisters kid so should he also be out? That’s all that kept him related to them sooo? So his main connection seems to be ozpin who is basically a weird fuck ass member of their family but then summer dies and tai shuts down and his family basically becomes this five year old and a toddler and he CAN NOT be a care taker he is to dangerous and to bad at any of that and is the only one who ISNT A PARENT but he try’s? To support them? And it’s bad and he’s bad at it but he trains summers kid to be like him and he try’s to help his sisters kid raise her and he starts to think of them as separate people but he’s also not their parent and he will not improve his problems for them and it’s baddd and he leaves all the time when he can to be further not a part of it and less of a bad influence but it doesn’t work

And Ravens like “I’m not a part of this family!!! Also I hope you’re all not mad at me and miss me a lot and I visibly still love you all whatever” she LITERALLY left but she was connected to the whole family still UNTIL they seemed to totally move on from her with their knew kid who she’s never even met and her and her brother don’t interact and her daughter doesn’t know about her and she knows they probably avoid her name in the house she used to share with them and she try’s to pretend she’s still part of it when she meets Any of them but they know and she knows that’s not how it works they all hate her

Oh and summer to def

Summer (we don’t know to much about) but def felt like a very specific kind of black sheep because being a TEAM LEADER in a family dynamic has definitely gotta bring an odd power dynamics into the home and definitely separates herself from everyone else AND she definitely blames herself for the household falling apart

So yeah everyone in that stupid family is some dramatic depressed loser and it’s everyone’s and no ones fault

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Because I love to suffer I imagine Summer would have been more protective of Yang than Ruby if she didn't die ,what's more I think she'd notice Yang and Blake falling in love long before they themselves noticed it.

Instead of projecting Raven on Yang , as Tai did , she would project Tai on her and be completely mama bear over Yang's romantic relationships because of it .

She would 100% be the kind of mom " I don't care who you love but right now you need to love books" and advise Yang to gard her heart telling her what kind of problems dating your partner could bring all of that to Yang's confusion because "Mom, you're embarrassing me and I have no idea what you're talking about? " but she would also be a safe place for Yang to turn to with her heart problems and cry her ordeals when Blake left the team.

But we'll never have that , so suffer with me I guess ?

I REALLY like that

I like that a lot

Cause it’s summer treating her differently cause of what happened but it’s so much of an act of love and I love that

I loveee imperfections in their little loving family when the family gets to be imperfect (summers alive) instead of flat out disfunctional

And I love her being protective of Yang cause that’s 1 SO cute 2 makes sense cause there was so much going on when she was so so young with raven abandoning them and all, and so with all that stress and trauma going around when Yang was just a baby probably made her be a little bit more protective over her

I love the “right now you need to love books” cause if you’ve noticed I personally believe Yang has perfect grades

Summer: you need to focus on your studies and she’s a bad influence

Yang: my studie- I have some of the best grades in the school??

Also Yang ADORES summer she thinks she’s perfect so this is just that much sweeter and that much more painful

And in like an alternate universe where she didn’t die even if she and tai still weren’t around much, if they were still doing active huntress/huntsmen work and so the sisters childhoods weren’t too different just a lot better with a lot happier campers of caretakers

They could’ve been so close

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Your STRQ-Y fanart hurts me so bad , reminds me of a headcanon of mine that probably isn't true that Raven left because she saw how much better for Yang Summer was than she was

Glad you liked(hated) my art

I TOTALLY believe that’s at LEAST part of it 100% it fits in with the narrative pattern of Yang personally suffering because others are self destructive

Like say what you want about rwbys writing but thats always consistent

There’s a whole episode where she goes “hey don’t destroy yourself on purpose it actually fucks up everyone you care about more then it does anything else” and then tells a story that references At LEAST four people who did that and fucked up her life because of it (+Bby Ruby sleeping shes the mvp)

Also it fits with Raven characterization wise and all that and her CLEARLY loving people but just being really really bad at it

So it makes sense as a narrative pattern and also in character

I personally don’t think it was the only reason she probably had lore driven reasons

But yeah ravens definitely very never love an anchor by the crane wives

I think she loves and loved Yang a lot she’s shown checking up on her a lot as a child(not that she followed through with helping her but still it shows love)

Maybe she didn’t help her when everything fell apart because of how she herself was dealing with summers death, maybe she felt responsible and she didn’t want that to touch her family, maybe she saw Yang dealing with every other failure of a caretaker and didn’t want to add another disappointment, maybe she never even popped in because she didn’t want to pop in and out whenever it was convenient and destabilize yangs life even further, maybe she thought Yang was doing perfect as she was, maybe she thinks the suffering she was going through was good and made her stronger that children should go through that and that she was doing great

Who knows

Love to hear everyone’s thoughts on raven

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team strq and baby yang for a doodle? love your art!

TEAM STRQ-Y

I like to think they had a little bit of time all together before Raven left

I think Yang was a really really chill baby for baby standards