Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-108.26.119.115-20170121211521/@comment-4010415-20170128175446

98.238.149.28 wrote:

1: How is it offical that Summer is dead? All we have to go off of is that she "Didn't come back from a mission" if there's no body and no offical witnesses, then its not an offical death.

3: Neo has never backed down from a fight before (unless trying to save Torchwick) yet the minute she saw Ravyn, she bailed. She didn't even attempt to fight at all. She obviously recognized her somehow. 1. We've pretty much been going with the crew and the show trying to tell us she's dead, between "didn't come back" being a common dramatic way of saying "died", Red Like Roses Part 2 saying "died", a RWBY crew member calling the stone with Summer's name on it "Summer's gravestone", the depiction of Summer in the volume 1 opening being ghost-like (her legs fade into nothingness like a ghost, and then she disintegrates into petals), etc.

3. It's spelled Raven, not Ravyn. And the RWBY crew actually outright told us that Neo did not recognize Raven. They told us that Neo fled because she knew she didn't stand a chance in that fight.

Raven actually landed a hit on her. Neo didn't jump back after the initial attack, she got knocked back. Neo's fighting style involves getting close and using her agility to dodge and block attacks and target openings. However, she was not fast enough to dodge Raven, and Raven's sword is so long that there's no way Neo could get close to her. Neo fled because she's smart.