Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31035509-20170113134825/@comment-4010415-20170113141131

AshMaura wrote: Did Summer Rose kill herself?

1. people think that 1: summer rose couldv'e been a maiden 2: the silver eyes are a trait of that particular maiden and 3: that salem has the same glove/ring thing that cinder used to steal amber's powers

2. "i didn't have a choice I did what I had to do

i made a sacrifice but forced a bigger sacrifice on you"

That doesn't sound like an apology for going on the mission in the first place and what else would she have to apologize for? her killing herself too save remnant? hmmmmmm XD

3. i do belive that summer rose is dead the manner of her death could be important though 1. Like Spirited said, the Silver-Eyed Warriors are something 'completely separate from the Maidens. The are not Maidens, at all.' Summer probably wasn't a Maiden. Her name being Summer has nothing to do with the Maidens, considering Monty didn't come up with the idea for the Maidens until after they finished producing volume 2. Ruby is most definitely not a Maiden. Qrow would've told her. Instead, he told her a story about warriors with silver eyes. And I'm pretty sure Ruby was born with those silver eyes, while Summer was still alive.

2. One situation I thought of a while back was that her mission could've gone badly and she had a choice between

A.) Run away from the dangerous situation, which would lead to something horrible happening to other people.

B.) Stay and fight so that innocent people would be saved, even though it meant risking her life.

Ruby's lines in the song make it sound like Summer promised her that she would go back home after her mission, and child Ruby didn't understand why Summer broke her promise of not returning. ("How could you leave me when you swore that you would stay?!")

I guess it's either that, or she said she was gonna stop leaving home for weeks at a time for missions, then decided to go on "one last mission" and died during that mission.

3. More likely, the manner of Summer's death is murder, by the hands of Salem's group. Hazel said they've dealt with Silver-Eyed Warriors before, which implies that they could've killed Summer. It's possible that the missions Summer went on were for Ozpin - secret, dangerous missions to try to thwart Salem's plans and things like that.