#she's not even my most powerful soul anymore since rum surpassed her

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NAME :// QROW BRANWEN ORIGIN :// RWBY AGE :// FORTY-FOUR JOB :// PROFESSOR OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE FC :// JOHN CHO

I thought I saw the devil, this morning, looking in the mirror, drop of rum on my tongue          With the warning to help me see myself clearer               I never meant to start a fire, I never meant to make you bleed,                     I’ll be a better man today

BIOGRAPHY ://

Booze laced veins and memories better left forgotten, like an old dog he nurses his wounds. Puddles never form in the bags under his eyes, though this is only because he refuses to think back. Refuses to remember. He has long given up thinking that he can change the past and is too far gone to think that he can change the future. Misfortune granted to anything that he dared to touch, dared to hold. Tragedy and hardship plagued the man who only ever wanted to help.

Well. that’s not completely true. At a young age, he was sent hand in hand with his sister to find answers to questions that weren’t his to ask, enemy territory too well known for someone who was considered by many to still be a child. Qrow hardened himself in order not to falter. But it was here that he found his friends, that he found his team. Summer, Taiyang, Qrow and Raven, training side by side. As the days went on, it started to feel less and less like enemy territory and more and more like home.

Graduation came and devastation reigned; not the next day the four of them journeying out into the world to fight together as one. That was their place, as it always had been, the field proving to be no tougher than what Raven and Qrow had faced in the past. Grimm were plentiful, but they kept the borders safe, and they had each other’s backs. Everything was going to plan, the only hiccup being that Raven wanted to return to their clan. Qrow did not share this sentiment. Weekly hushed debates transpired, Qrow almost always convincing his sister that they weren’t done with their mission yet.

They both knew that was a lie. Their mission had ended the moment that graduation passed, but months had come and gone since that date. More continued to pass and Raven’s stomach started to round, their temporary situation becoming something more permanent. Qrow was happy here and when Yang’s cry first pierced the air, Qrow knew that he would do anything in his power to protect her. With that being said, he also knew the adversity that followed him and his name, so he kept his space as the caring but aloof uncle.

If only he had been able to maintain that platonic level of relationship with everyone that was important to him.

Summer. She was warm like a mid July breeze, smile infectious and a love for cookies and spring that could be rivaled by no other. She spoke to him in rivers and mountains, promised of a future and he gave everything to her. His heart. His soul. A child. Yang would always hold a special place in his heart, but everything changed when Ruby came to him. Qrow never thought that he would be lucky enough to have something so beautiful, so pure. A family to call his own.

The universe stuck him with the raw deal, and Qrow knew that his relation with the child was going to get her killed it he wasn’t careful. By the gods, when he held her… It was with careful consideration that he passed on the role of fathership to Taiyang, something that he has simultaneously blessed and never forgiven himself for. The girl is better of in his care, that is obvious to Qrow, and Ruby and Yang would always have one another, it gave Ruby something that he would never be able to give her.

Stability.

No matter how long he stayed in one place, there was always the itch. The one that told him that he was better off in the field, that he was better of being useful somewhere than to try to give himself a small square to piss in. So he did what he had to do.

The only saving grace was that the little bundle of joy, his Ruby, his precious gem, took Summer’s last name. It was almost like she had no father at all. Only it wasn’t like that at all because Tai wasn’t going to let a girl go through life without a father.

The days became shorter in the absence of Summer, though he did still come to visit the girls as an uncle figure, he could never look at the woman that he loved the same way again. Not without fear of being figured out by the daughter that so lovingly called him uncle.

When Raven left, he thought that was going to be the end of the friendships that he had worked so long to uphold. He never thought that she would just abandon them like that, abandon Qrow, abandon Yang. No one had seen her leave that day, but Qrow was almost positive as to where she went. He was never going to go after her. Too proud, too tired and more than that, he was angry. It poured into him like a lava that scorched everything that it touched, how dare she. She had everything that he had wanted, a family that she could call her own, but she had felt the same itch that he had and how angry could he really be?

Apparently the answer to that question was irate.

He was there the day that it happened. The day that it all fell apart. It would have been different if Raven had been there, she would have known what to do, she would have at least had his back. Had their back. Had her back. Summer.

Color left the world the day that she was ripped from it, the man turning black and white against the pale background of never ending grief. How was he supposed to tell a six year old that her mother was never coming home? He wouldn’t. That’s just it, isn’t it? He was the loving uncle that never had a place within the home of a girl that shared his blood. If anything this event, no matter how morbid, only solidified his stance.

He faded. Back into the battlefield that took his love from him, back into the distance as the uncle who always happened to show up drunk. He was gone more often than he wasn’t, always around the corner, just close enough to watch but far enough away to never be caught. Though the bottom of a liqour bottle, he watched her grow, watched her match pace with Yang, watched her surpass.

When she came of the proper age, he took her under his wing and began the training. It wasn’t what Summer would have wanted, or maybe it was, they had never discussed it in any length because they were supposed to have more time togehter.

That’s what it always comes back to, isn’t it? A lack of time. A lack of future that he had been promised so many years ago.

Ruby fought like her mother, strong and unbiased in her swings and Qrow taught her to move like a huntress. To charge and take action, even though she smiled like a child, she knew what had to be done and that was what mattered.

At the end of the day.

More than anything.

Ruby had the same love of cookies that her mother had.

And that broke his heart.

When the sisters told Taiyang that they to attend schooling on an asteroid that was too far way, Taiyang had called upon Qrow. He told her of the girls’ plan and more than that told him that he had granted them permission. It was hard for Qrow to accept, that they wouldn’t always be just around the corner. That Ruby wouldn’t be joining them on their hunts anymore, that it would be back to the two remaining members of their team. Not that he did not have a love for Taiyang, he only wanted that love to extend to both his brother in arms and his dau-… niece.

It took a few years for Qrow to really decide what he was going to do. He was highly skilled in a lot of things, but that didn’t mean that he wanted to just chose at random. All he knew was that he wanted to follow them, to look after them, as he had promised all those years ago.

So when a teaching position became available at the university on the asteroid, Qrow didn’t let himself have a choice in the matter. He packed his bags and called the man that he spent so many years with fighting side by side. Tai gave him his blessing, and that was it.

Qrow joined them on the asteroid, and gave himself to the stars.

AESTHETIC ://

Dark ravens against white snow. Empty liquor bottle clinking together in a trash bag. Drink it straight or don’t drink it at all. here for a good time not a long time. Drinking to forget or drinking to remember? Drinks. Vodka. The death of innocence in a man that never lets childish antics go. Heart break. Heart ache.

MISC ://

Years living among people that could not be trusted, Qrow learned to carry a weapon when he was young. Though he did not bring his scythe with him to the asteroid, he does have quite a collection in his spare room. At any moment, he more than likely has at least two weapons on him, his main and then a backup.

Qrow likes to think of himself as a functioning alcoholic. That’s not exactly accurate on some days, but it’s still how he likes to consider himself.

Family has always been important to Qrow, but the definition has changed over the years as to what family really means. Tai is his family. Summer was his family. Two girls who bare too much resemblance are his family. He doesn’t think much of his clan now that he has seen what the world has to offer him.

It would be easy to say that Qrow unlucky. More than that, it’s almost as if he cursed. Because of this, forming bonds with him is extremely hard. He doesn’t want to pull anyone else onto a sinking ship, because it is always those around him that get hurt.

CONNECTION ://

Taiyang Xiao Long : Best friend. A rock in the most dangerous of storms.

Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long : His nieces. He loves them equally.

Raven Branwen : Sister. Distant at best, hostile at worst.

James Ironwood : Prick.

Winter Schnee : Bitch.

AVAILABILITY :// OPEN || TAKEN BY EASTON

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