Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-15108745-20130811001851/@comment-4010415-20130916093021

Red Trailer - No idea. It could've taken place beforehand, if Summer Rose was her mother or something, and she was visiting her grave, back when she was still attending Signal. Then again, Monty said she was out-of-character in that trailer since she didn't have a character/personality. And the beowolves were far different. So the Red trailer could ideally be mostly non-canon.

White Trailer - First of all, I've heard that Monty said that Weiss's scar being visible during the fight against the giant armor is an animation mistake. She's not supposed to have her scar during that fight. So, the White trailer, or at least the fight, takes place before episode 1.

On a side note, I think her performance could've been part of some show or something that her parents hosted. That place seems to have been owned by the Schnee family, at least.

Black Trailer - I think it most likely takes place before episode 1. She was close with Adam, I've heard that Monty stated their relationship was like mentor/student, and in the full version of the show's intro sequence, you can see his mask markings in the upper right when she's shown standing on a tree. Why would they show a trace of him in the season 1 opening, if she doesn't have some connection to him yet? Plus, she's reading a book about a man with two souls (though, they copied and pasted part of Jekyll & Hyde into it), which works with my theory that she left to see if she could find a way to help Adam.

Yellow Trailer - Considering that my current theory is that Yang could quite possibly be searching for her mother or something like that, I'm inclined to think the trailer took place before episode 1. The full version of the show's intro implies that she is indeed searching for someone, so that is actually canon to the series and could possibly have been one of Yang's focuses even before episode 1. Plus, the second tweet on the official Yang Xiao Long Twitter makes me feel even more like the Yellow trailer was pre-episode 1. Posted June 9th.

Also, I think Transient Princess being shown in the picture was just Monty working with what he had. He probably didn't have a design for whatever character Yang is looking for at the time, so he just threw in Transient Princess.