Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131114110913/@comment-174.89.31.91-20131209034146

I just want to make a point of how I see this song. Nobody feel the need to argue or agree, I see the massive amount of holes in both the popular theories and my own theory. Nobody knows for sure, except for Monty.

I agree with a vast majority of people who think that this is some kind of communication between Ruby and her mother. I believe that from the lyrics, Ruby's mother was a huntress, who often went away to fight battles and go on missions, and she would always promise a young Ruby that she would come back. One day, she doesn't. Ruby feels abandoned and often visits her grave (The one from the "Red" trailer). After the death of her mother, she was adopted by Yang's family.

Now, onto a few little holes. Monty has stated several times that Ruby and Yang are blood related but not blood sisters. This punches a slight hole in the adoption theory. Although, the hole can be fixed if you think of Ruby and Yang as cousins, not sisters. Ruby's mother was the reletive of one of Yang's parents. But, there is another hole punched into this theory. Ruby and Yang often call each other "sis". Many people think this is just a statement of how close their relationship is. That fixes the hole a bit. Not entirely though, due to the fact that as cousins, they would be able to call each other by many nicknames to show their close relationship. But no, they use sis. If you think about the way that Monty, Miles, and Kerry explain things in the director's commentary on the DVD for volume 1 (And yes, this is how much I've thought about this theory) this seems like much too loose of an explaination. This is not just a friendly name, it means something much larger is going on.

Now, onto my personal theory of this whole "Ruby's past" situation. Ruby and Yang are not related at all. Ruby's mom really did die, and she was taken in by Yang's family, who are not related to Ruby's family, but one of the members of the family (Possibly Qrow) knew Ruby's mother, and decided to take her in (Therefore making Qrow Yang's uncle, not Ruby's). Ruby and Yang developed an incredibly close bond because with Yang being the only person even remotely close to Ruby's age, she felt obliged to comfort and protect her. This can explain her overdefensiveness of a girl that can clearly take care of herself. Yes, I'm honestly going to fully disagree with something Monty has said several times. My reasoning behind this is actually sprouted from Blake being a faunus. Before episode 15 was released, Monty told Arryn to have no interaction with the community about any art related to Blake having cat ears, any written work to do with it, and she couldn't correct people on the "fauna vs faunus" argument that many people used to have. He banned her from saying anything about it, but what if he liked Ruby's past so much that he didn't want to hiide it, he wanted to make people believe it was completely wrong. To the point that he thought the entire community had accepted the fact that Yang and Ruby were somehow related. Keep in mind, he has never said how Ruby and Yang are related, he only stated "blood related" and knowing Monty, that could mean many generations into the past, even hundreds of years. He has been incredibly sneaky about keeping their relations hidden. I don't know though, I simply thought of this because of the ambiguity of Monty's statements (Although Monty does seem to really like being vague...) Ever since I heard about the whole situation of Arryn, I've made a rule for myself, nothing that comes out of the mouth of a cast or crew member is true, until it's on the show. Now we'll just have to wait and see how this plays out...