#they might be frustrated as HELL that they aren't there and their teams kinda suck ass. but they still love and support cuz family is what

[stromer]

still thinking about hughes bro interview . if anyone cares. and yeah yeah the jack toothlessness of it all was great and luke is goat BUT i am chowing down on the quinn of it all. them being like.. "yeah it was really cool for him to come and support us despite wishing he was in the playoffs" … he's your older brother…. he loves u guys so bad … of course he was gonna be there... even if he hates that his team isn't!!! the "he really wants to be here as much as he's happy we're having success" bomb casually dropped in my living room on my television. i literally get it leave me alone. Oh and quinn got his tonsils taken out. Ok????

[yangingaround]

So, just how aware do you think Yang is that things aren't quite right with her family? On one hand with most characters I would say definitely not, on the other with Yang we actually don't hear her commentary on subjects often. Which is why people don't notice that she doesn't talk to Taiyang really. Yang doesn't talk to anyone often. People may tend to assume that Yang is hot head because when she blows her top the audience actually can tell what she's feeling. Not before.

yeah, Yang can go very quiet sometimes but because she falls so often to the background nobody really notices

like... 1x15, during Blake and Weiss’s argument - Yang is just in the background like this:

this is the second and last shot she’s actually in for the majority of the argument once it moves to the dorm (you see glimpses of her hair after the transition to the dorm but this is the only time she actually appears properly), and she doesn’t say a word

even Ruby tries to break up the fight, but, in contrast to Yang trying to play mediator when Ruby and Weiss were at odds at the beginning of the volume. and given what we later learn about her, it comes off like Yang avoided getting involved in the argument because she had no idea how to get involved that wouldn’t potentially risk alienating either Weiss, Blake or both - by siding with one or disagreeing with them

Yang really mostly gets focus when she’s being bright, and vibrant - or angry. so people build an image of her based on those louder moments because her quieter ones, aside from in Burning the Candle, are rarely given much direct attention

so yeah, Yang doesn’t offer her opinion often. hell, i’ve gone into before how she never suggests or does anything she wants to do if the others are around. so we really don’t know how Yang feels about a lot of things, we never hear her commentary. she refutes the accusation of what she appeared to do after the fight with Mercury, but after desperately asking to make sure she still had the team’s trust, she goes quiet and says she’s going to rest up (with an implication that she wants to be left alone - though knowing Yang that was probably more ‘don’t let me ruin your day’ than ‘i actually want to be left alone’). she really doesn’t talk that much in the discussion with Qrow afterwards either

and then with the talk with Tai, Yang just sits there and takes it while he tells her why her fighting style (which he taught her) sucks (and the ‘solution’ he offers is very generalised advice which won’t apply to every situation, and actually looking back at her past fights, including the fights he was criticising, she does do that when she needs to - hell we had that whole scene where she was kicking everyone’s ass at Remnant: The Game, including when she put together a winning play for Weiss only to deconstruct it in a single turn - Yang has a good head for strategy when she needs it), why her semblance sucks and she shouldn’t use it (with like, this weird implication that she needs to somehow grow out of it), and how much she’s like Raven (by listing examples of qualities Yang specifically does not share with Raven. “her ambition, her dedication to whatever cause she thought was worth fighting for”, doesn’t actually apply to Yang, who admits to being directionless and just going with the flow. and then his claim that Yang acts like all that matters in a fight is ‘strength’ when we’ve never had any implication of that) and never complimenting anything positive about Yang specifically (he compliments the arm over her, ‘that thing packs a punch’. it wouldn’t pack anything if she weren’t behind it)

Yang gets in one snide comment about being ‘sloppy’, a quip about how now they’re gonna talk about Raven (which Tai then flips around to making her the bad guy for wanting to bring it up) after he brings up her stubbornness (oh yeah, because the girl who self-admittedly nearly got herself and her baby sister killed because of her stubbornness - something she clearly believes she deserved to die for - is gonna have a stubbornness problem. stellar logic dad), which then nets a sullen apology for reminding him of Raven. but she really doesn’t talk much in the way of dialogue with her father, she just breaks up the monologue and takes his criticism, even when looking at it, it really doesn’t apply to her (and honestly, given how frustrated and unfocused she gets when she doesn’t let her anger out in full, his advice may well end up putting her in more danger given it was ‘yeah just don’t get angry’)

she doesn’t argue against it (as someone who actually has a stubbornness issue would), she doesn’t try and correct him on the things he’s getting wrong, or agree with him in any capacity, she just takes it

as for your question, whether she's aware or not - i’m kinda hoping she’s aware. she wasn’t able to rely on Taiyang when she was young, so she has good reason to know that the situation is messed up (and obviously her locking up and not really saying much means we don’t know what’s going on in her head) and that he doesn’t really get what’s going on with her

because the alternative is she takes what Tai says to heart, convinces herself of flaws she doesn’t have and focuses on those over the flaws she does have (and possibly convincing herself that her problems aren’t as bad as they really are because of how reductive he was about them), and puts herself in danger because she won’t be able to fight at her maximum if she’s suppressing her anger (as not letting it out affects her focus) and she’s trying too hard to find ‘another way around’ when there might not be one