Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-216.228.42.176-20130710040445/@comment-10390252-20130710131805

My guess is that 'Summer Rose' was either Ruby's mother or grandmother. If she's her grandma, who was killed by the Big Bad Beowolf (as per the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale) then she was probably already an orphan who her batchellor uncle, Crow, who teaches at Signal Academy, was unable to take in.

I think that Crow Rose was unable to care for Ruby before she came to the academy is going to be the case either way. In any case, after Summer's death, Ruby was adopted by the Xiao Long family; she's been with them long enough that she and Yang have become heart-sisters.

Regarding her deeper origins, I wonder if Ruby is going to turn out to be the last of a line of women with a special connection with Dust. She's going to be able to use it without tools (like Glinda) only turned up to Eleven. She is The Chosen One (although she doesn't know it... yet).