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Okay, here's my  Integrated Cinder Fall Theory


 * Cinder Fall's birth name is Autumn Rose; she is Summer Rose's twin sister and, therefore, Ruby and Yang's maternal aunt; When she was young, a friend who was a photographer took a photograph of her that we now know as 'The Transient Princess' and is the only image Ruby and Yang have of their missing kin;


 * Autum was in the same team with Summer, Glynda and Emma Tang, team SAGE;


 * Team SAGE were very much the Team RWBY of their era: brilliant, unquantifiable mavericks who promised to have their very own legend written in history. Ozpin (who was just Dust Applications professor at that time) too them on as a personal project. They developed a personal bond with him as a mentor and guide; all adopted his personal philosophy to a certain degree;


 * After graduating, SAGE continued to do odd jobs for Ozpin as part of his greater objective of reforming society; it all came to an end in a mission to the Snowy Forest. Due to bad intel, SAGE were ambushed; Summer was killed in a rear-guard action to give Autumn the chance ot evacuate Glynda and Emma, who were both wounded and unconscious. Emma would die of her injuries later in hospital;


 * Autumn would never forget what happened there. To a certain extent she blamed Ozpin for her twin's and former partner's (Emma) deaths. She also would never forget what she saw on that mission - the organisation of corruption, hypocrisy and perverted order that had been hiding beneath the surface of society and the scale of the 'shadow' army that was waiting to swoop down to snuff out every hint of freedom. Autumn decided that the only way to cure this ill that seemed to penetrate every part of society was to totally destroy the current social order and force civilisation to start anew (she's somewhat like the graphic novel version of V from V for Vendetta in that way);


 * Because Autumn Rose was a heroine, she felt the need to adopt a new identity to match her new, darker role. She chose the name Cinder Fall to symbolise her intent to burn the world to the foundation and then allow new shoots to grow from amid the ashes.