Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-72.235.216.156-20171115214726

Qrow said that Ruby was special in the same way as her mom, meaning that Ruby's mom also had silver eyes, and I assume by the way that Qrow said it she knew at least a little bit of how to use her powers as a silver-eyed warrior.

Hazel said that they'd "dealt with her kind before" when talking about Ruby. He continues to say "How is it a novice was able to best one of us?"

We also know that at least two members of Team STRQ were involved with Ozpin in his planning, as Raven appears to have been in his confidence at one point. I'm expecting a little more about this to be revealed in Volume 5 Chapter 5, but until I watch that, I'm simply assuming that the entirety of Team STRQ was involved in Ozpin's endeavor to save the world from Salem.

It's just a theory, but I think that Summer was taking a mission for Ozpin that got in the way of something that Salem's people were doing, and they managed to defeat her despite her powers as a silver-eyed warrior.

I'd like to note that if Summer had at least some use of her power, I doubt that a mere grimm could have taken her down on a random mission. Yes huntsmen just don't come back from missions sometimes, but a silver-eyed warrior, no matter how unpracticed with their powers they may be, should be, in an intense enough situation, able to produce an effect similar at least to what Ruby did to the dragon when she saw Pyrrha killed.

Only thing I'm wondering about (and this is a very minor detail) Dr. Watts said "Yes, Ms. Rose was in attendance," when Cinder asked if she was there. If they'd dealt with a "Ms. Rose" (Or Mrs. Rose, as the case may be) before, would he have said the line the way he did? Or was he already saying it with the significance I'm looking for?

Another thing, if this is true, does it really change anything, other than maybe making Ruby mad? The only other possibility that I can think of is that they didn't kill her, but only captured her, but I don't believe that the creators of the show would sink that low. So far, dead people have stayed dead, except for Ozpin, which is the limit of my patience with this type of thing. So does it really matter whether or not Salem was involved in Ruby's mom's death?

Any evidence for or against any this that I missed? 