and the context within and like. the obscuring of summer's face when she says "if i do this right, then there's nothing to worry about. trust me." is suspicious, to say the least, but the way she's upset and angry with raven... it feels like it goes beyond just raven leaving, ya know? if summer's hidden face and raven's current view of her is anything to go by, something went south real quick, and i wouldn't be surprised to find it was summer who betrayed raven, and doing so simply because she left once upon a time seems like an overkill.
and that gets me to the scene in V5 and what actually led to the shoulder bump back then, and. well. yang's opinion of raven may have not been the greatest at any point of time, but it was heavily influence with not knowing anything and wanting answers—why did she leave?
it only takes a hard downturn when yang figures out what happened to the spring maiden. that is at the core of everything that follows; including the shoulder bump.
and when the question of when exactly raven became the spring maiden is treated as a spoiler question—even when canon, allegedly, provides a time frame for it—, it really makes me wonder if summer figured it out on her own, and it's that that explains her view of raven in the flashback.
it would also be a really interesting difference between yang and summer; yang taking the target off of raven's back while summer's like WELP. somebody's gotta go!!
You fools, does ‘like mother like daughter’ mean nothing to you?? Yang inheriting her Genetic Chronic Gay Disaster Disease™️ from her deadbeat bird mom IS CANONNN alrighty these two dumbasses have NO CLUE how to act around the girls they’re so heavily whipped fer
Looking back, this might actually be my favourite scene in the entire show (even if v5 was a mess).
The quote, "You're my daughter after all," hits different now. And I'll explain why.
Yang is nothing like Raven, because she's no coward who'll run. As she said, she'd face Salem when the time comes unlike Raven who'll just run away.
And in v8, this is exactly what she did.
So when Yang ignored her and walked past her, choosing to fight even in such an awful situation, it reminded her of the mission that killed Summer — where she too walked past Raven, willing to fight on even with the stakes.
And now we finally know why she cried — she realised Yang was always Summer's daughter, never hers.