Tangled Family Tree / The RWBY Loops

This◊ is the latest version of the family tree (as of Ch.158/July '19), and it's still missing a few people.

The Extended Remnant Looper Family Tree, which spans nine universes and has between forty and fifty members, is quite the monster. In addition to the baseline family relationships, there’ve been a large number of adoptions and romances. To wit:

• Cinder Fall and Neopolitan pretended to have awoken from loops where they were related to Ruby and Yang; by the point the deceptions were revealed, however, the emotional connection formed was so strong that they were still called Sister and Cousin respectively. Roman tags along as Neo's vaguely defined "partner," and all three of them have admitted to having sexual relations with unawake versions of most of Remnant's baseline population.
• Ruby and Yang compounded the issue by adopting siblings from other universes, a number which at this point totals at around six (and one of their brothers, Nate Adams, has adopted a kid of his own!).
  • This habit is mimicked to a lesser degree by Blake, who only adopted three out of universe siblings (and a sister in law), and has labeled Sun Wukong as her cousin; some time after she and Yang got engaged they also adopted Nadia Fortune as their daughter.
• Meanwhile team JNPR went ahead and formed a standard nuclear family despite all of them being the same age, none of them being related by blood, and one of them occasionally being dead. Penny declared Ironwood to be her Generuncle Jamie, Nora claimed Penny as her cousin, and much later Nora and Ren started dating (despite also seeing each other as adoptive siblings).
• By the time Ruby's uncle Qrow started dating Winter, bringing the Schnee family into the mess, Ruby realized what was happening and called an emergency meeting to tie everyone up in a single tree. Ozpin ended up becoming the adoptive grandfather of Qrow and Ironwood with Glynda being declared his sister, and new loopers have been slid in where appropriate when activated.
• Raven and Taiyang agree they're better off as friends, but her parental status bungles the whole thing even further. She and Yang have agreed they aren't mother and daughter, but Yang appears comfortable treating her in an aunt fashion and explicitly says she only calls her "mom" when she's trolling her. However, Raven has taken to kidnapping/adopting Whitley Schnee, on the grounds that she is a better parent than Jacques (something Weiss agrees with and allows, seeing as she's officially disowned the man). It gets to the point where Raven sees Whitley as a surrogate son... which can cause problems when he crushes on Vernal, who she sees as a surrogate daughter.
  • It also doesn’t help that when Raven and Taiyang looped into their high school days with Summer Rose still alive, all three of them became equal lovers.
• The situation when volume six hits: Ilia, who was adopted by the Belladonnas so she's another sister to Blake, has adopted North Dakota as a brother of her own and is dating Emerald, who herself is Cinder's vaguely defined "ward". Oscar Pine is considered Ozpin's son for purposes of the family tree, and seems to have an Odd Friendship with Neo. Ruby is in a romantic relationship with Penny, though they're both fine with it not being sexual. Weiss finally caved and took on Diana Cavendish as a sister of her own, bringing another universe into the mess. Oh, and Blake and Yang got officially married so there's that.
  • Meanwhile, outside of Remnant, Nate's mother started looping and has a friendly relationship with Taiyang, but insists she is still married to her own husband even if he is not looping. As of Yo Kai Watch Shadowside Nate is married with a biological daughter, leaving Ruby once again a proud auntie.
• Throwing nonlooping individuals into the mix, there's a question about whether Salem is on the tree or not. Cinder admits to seeing her in a maternal role, but also acknowledges that is sort of twisted, and Ozpin takes the reveals of Volume six hard, considering her an ex-wife at best (unless he loops in early enough to stop her descent into evil). Ruby has also jokingly suggested that Jinn (who is loop aware but not looping) could be considered a family matriarch, which was shot down by Cinder. And although Maria has been jokingly called granny by both Ruby and Yang, they have yet to officially adopt her. But everyone agrees that Saphron, Terra, and Adrian are part of the family.
• And with the events of the Volume 7 expansions, Winter has agreed to adopt Penny as yet another sister, which she sarcastically admits makes the whole thing even more convoluted.
• Lampshaded by many after Maria and Mercury were activated. Cinder considers adopting Mercury as another ward just to keep the family tree from getting more convoluted, though Emerald isn't fully on board with the idea and even thinks about possibly adopting Mercury as a brother or cousin. Ruby has a breakdown over not knowing where the new Loopers will attach themselves to the tree, and panics over the idea that Maria would declare herself to be Salem's cousin (since it’s the most distant relation) just to mess with her. Sun is left to calm the poor girl down. It gets worse for Ruby since Mercury repeatedly refuses her attempts at getting him on the tree, wanting nothing to do with its insanity.
• Adding another layer of connection in the family tree, Weiss Schnee eventually confessed her romantic feelings towards Ruby, and after a long and extended period of distress between her, Ruby, and Penny, the three of them followed in Raven, Taiyang’s, and Summer’s footsteps, with Weiss and Penny both dating Ruby.