User blog comment:Drache Mace/Who was Yang looking for?/@comment-4010415-20140809211157

The Yellow Trailer definitely took place before the show. Aside from the fact that Monty said all four original trailers take place before the series starts, there's also...


 * In Welcome to Beacon, Weiss said "Okay, between blowing up nightclubs, stopping thieves, and fighting for freedom" This insinuates that the Yellow Trailer has already happened, and Yang told them about it. What Weiss was mentioning was, in order, the Yellow Trailer, volume 1 episode 1, and Blake's time in the White Fang.


 * At the end of the Yellow Trailer, Ruby asks "What're you doing here?" and Yang responds with "It's a long story." She wouldn't need to respond with that, if Ruby already knew she was searching for someone.


 * Like you said, they don't know that Cinder is the mastermind, so the picture isn't her. It also isn't Blake, as Monty has pointed out before. It's already been mentioned in the comments that it's really an edited version of Monty's artwork Transient Princess, though whoever Yang was looking for is relevent, as Monty has said we'll find out who she is.


 * In the Volume 2 Trailer, as soon as Yang walks into the club, she's surrounded by goons who point their guns at her. This shows that they recognize her and aren't happy that she's there.

The events of the Red, White, Black, and Yellow trailers will not happen in the show. They were meant to be vignettes of sorts, but Rooster Teeth felt that their audience wouldn't understand what a vignette is and decided to label them as trailers. Like I said before, Monty said they all happened before the show.

Before anyone asks about the Red Trailer, it has been said that the beowolves in the Red Trailer are the weakest form of beowolf. Plus, I feel that Ruby really is fine on her own, since she can swing her scythe around and shoot as much as she wants without having to worry about anyone getting hurt. She doesn't have to hold back and can go full-on destructive and deadly on everything around her.