there have already been several theories that raven can sense when someone she's bonded to is in mortal danger. RWBY beyond even showed raven in the vacuo meeting room, probably finally motivated to help for once after finding out her daughter was dead.
and after all of that, i genuinely cannot wrap my head around the fact that no writer has sat down and written a story about how raven found out yang had died and what happened afterward while living in vacuo, considering she's most likely staying there with qrow.
i've only ever found one fic where raven arrives in vacuo and finds yang's grave, but the author stopped after chapter one in 2024 and never updated it again.
that conversation yang had with raven in the vault—the last time we ever saw raven in the show—probably changed her in so many ways. especially considering that in the volume 5 post-credit scene, we see her in bird form visiting the family cabin. after that, yang was probably the biggest reason raven started changing at all.
and it's not just raven. qrow finding out that the only two things left in his life that he still thought were worth fighting for had died, and somehow nobody has written a long, complex character-driven story about any of this?
i'm not even going to mention taiyang because considering the cct tower went down again after ruby's warning, and he probably wasn't staying at home with everything that was going on, nobody really had any way of knowing where he was to at least send him a letter updating him on everything.
anyway, if anyone has read or seen any fics that focus on this topic, please drop them in the comments. my desperate need to read something like this would be greatly appreciated!
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