Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25574297-20141024020130/@comment-9090085-20141028093042

Depends on the series.

RWBY is a bit blurrier then I'm making it out to be; Several "good" characters have dark-themed clothing: Ruby and Glenda, for instance. While some villains go in the opposite direction: Roman wears white, while Cinder fights with fire, a source of light. Pyrrha even mentions that people have both light and darkness in them, being capable of both good and ill.

There is no ambiguity with the Grimm however: They are the Darkness - Pure Darkness - without a shred of light or goodness in them. You can even get a good idea of where the Grimm are most numerous by how dark an area of the map is.

The Mysterious Swordswoman doesn't just have dark themed clothing: She has dark-themed powers; a Grimm mask that incorporates part of her face into it's design - blurring the line between her and the mask; and seems to exude darkness.

My full thoughts on what she might be is:

That she is Yang's mother, "corrupted" into something part-Grimm; is a high-ranking member of the White Fang, possibly the "new" leader; and she saved Yang because some shred of light left within her felt that her daughter was about to die, and almost instinctively teleported to Yang to protect her.

-sigh- Typing it out makes me feel dumb.

Don't get me wrong, "Dark is not Evil" stories are some of my absolute favorites! But sometimes, Dark is Evil; and in this case, with this character, I think that might be the case.

BenRG wrote: I think you can make a solid argument that, in her pursuit of the power she needs to avert the apocalypse, maybe The Myseterious Swordswoman has walked a bit too close to the edge and stared into the abyss for a bit too long. Maybe it will be Yang's great destiny to pull her back from the brink or even rescue and redeem her?

That is definitely a possibility. It's not even incompatible with what I think of her, I feel.