Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-1292715-20181223044830

It seems evident that Salem has been actively hunting down the Silver Eyed Warriors over the years, especially if we're right to assume Tock was one of her subordinates. Hazel claims they have 'dealt with' them before.

So why does Salem want Ruby alive?

When Tyrian was told to find Ruby, he looked excited at the prospect of killing her, only to be visibly disappointed when he was told to capture her alive. He appears to be Salem's most loyal subordinate of the whole lot. If he was involved in past skirmishes with them and Salem wanted SEWs in general alive then surely he would've known she wanted Ruby alive, unless she really has ordered them dead in the past and is only just now ordering one of them alive.

So why Ruby of all people? Something tells me that it can't JUST be because of her silver eyes. The only answer we got so far is that Salem tells Cinder not to underestimate the usefulness of others. So what use could she possibly gain from capturing Ruby alive?

Did she just recently find out something she could use them for and Ruby just happens to be the only one they know about? Does it simply have to do with how Ruby's basically Ozpin's chosen spark of hope? OR is what she wants more connected to Ruby herself? Like, for example, what if what she wants from Ruby has something to do with Summer?

Any thoughts? 