general hcs for qrow’s childhood/history:
he was born in a very old-fashioned, ‘traditional’ village between vale and vacuo. i’m talking super super old-school. almost like an amish settlement, with no modern technology; the people survived generations due to natural borders of a thick forest, and training children from young ages to respect emotions, and how to carry a weapon.Â
birthing was done the old-fashioned way, with mid-wives and at home. marriages were usually arranged, and often took place before the ‘wife’ hit twenty-years-old. his parent’s marriage was arranged when they were both eighteen
his mother was nineteen when she became pregnant with twins
qrow was born second, raven is technically two and a half minutes older
while qrow’s birth didn’t kill his mother, his portion of labor was much harder on her than raven’s. it took him awhile to be born, and it left their mother incredibly weak
he was born without a sound. he didn’t cry, he didn’t whine, he barely moved. the village considered it incredibly odd, and at first thought he was a still-born.
he had a very prominent red birthmark on his left shoulder ; it resembled a crow and as a result, right from the get go, his village considered the twins to be a bad omen. they were expunged from the community, infants and mother alike.Â
as an injured, weak, and inexperienced nineteen-year-old, their mother was ill-fit to care for the two on her own, though she did try. she cared very much for them
but eventually, she would perish while trying to travel to vacuo.Â
qrow and raven were discovered by the tribe as infants in the wild. they were taken in and raised among bandits. it was the bandits that gave both raven and qrow their names, not his mother.Â
he only knows the village he was born in due to his travels as a huntsman after graduating. he looks an awful lot like his mother, and after exposing his birthmark to an old midwive he met there, she informed him of the ‘twin black birds’ that sought to ruin their history
his mother’s name was frija. his father’s name was woden - he also passed but due to grimm some twelve years after he was born
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