#ozqrow

So the good ones have spoken– well, amen.

BTS and Textless ver. below.

Because it’s a little different from canon.

Primarily because Qrow in LS doesn’t drink/hasn’t gotten drunk in a while/tries to hide it from his daughters when he does.

But after he finds out that Oz is presumed dead, Qorbyn is presumed dead, and Olivia is presumed dead, he immediately goes back to that as a means of coping, and he falls in HARD.

Once Oz appears and he is, in fact, not dead. Qrow lays off slightly, but is still getting drunk pretty often because of his daughters and all the old memories coming back to him about losing everything all over again. (Aka losing STRQ, Summer, Raven, etc.)

Blaine and Jasmine arrive in Mistral to tell Qrow and RNJR about what the deal is in Atlas, and that Qorbyn and Olivia are staying with them.

Qrow at this point, gathers up enough hope to at least make an effort to reel himself in, but doesn’t quit completely.

Then they get to Atlas, and he sees his daughters, but as happy as he is, he’s seeing them at their worst. Which is the push he needs to try to quit drinking completely. He isn’t okay by any means, but he feels like he has to be for Qorbyn and Olivia. (Important note: Oz is in a similar boat and journey, albeit with his own nuances, seeing as in LS, Oz also struggles with alcoholism, past life shit YAAAAY /s)

Qrow meets Clover in Atlas and is instantly BITTER. This guy seems to have absolutely everything, he’s got friends who care about him, two kids, and a top tier job. Of course over time Clover kinda accidentally weasels his way into a friendship with Qrow because they’re put on a shit ton of missions together (thanks James.), and Qrow starts to see the downsides to having a Good Luck semblance.

People take advantage of you, you worry about people only wanting you for your semblance, that your friends aren’t actually your friends, that you’re put on a pedestal.

Clover reminds Qrow a lot of Pyrrha. And he can’t help but feel bad.

But most importantly, you still deal with the abandonment issues of people leaving you. (As in: the mother to Ivy basically abandoned him and his kids)

So the two start bonding a significant amount, and become good friends. Especially when Ivy and Olivia become friends too.

But as we all know, Clover ends up dead at the hands of Tyrian, and Qrow, instead of going back to drinking, begins trying to figure out how to commit murder. Somewhere in here he begins to be protective of Ivy.

Once Ruby and Yang go missing, Qrow is stuck in Vacuo wondering what happened to them, but swearing he would be better for everyone he cares about, something something actively trying to look at his problems and solve them instead of shoving his emotions down. (This is also when Qorbyn ends up going off and doing her thing in terms of healing because she realizes that she can’t heal and also be worried about the opinions of people she cares about, but that’s for a different post.)

Ruby and Yang come back, volume 10 happens, etc.