Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-69.124.75.20-20150609230845/@comment-4010415-20150913001321

Coolishy777 wrote: Quick theory.

Sacrifice is a song written from Summer Rose's point of view toward Ozpin. Ozpin needs to get someone to the inner workings of the White Fang to report back to him, and to do so the person going undercover must kill a huntsman or huntress as an initiation. Ozpin plans to sacrifice Summer in order for this goal to be fullfilled. Summer disagrees with his "ancient ways" and archaic thinking and instead of being a literal sacrifices she is placed into protective custody and maybe even hidden away somewhere away from her family. All signs point to her death and so Ozpin gets his undercover operative. Eh... I still think it's Cinder talking to the government. For all we know, Summer could've been sent on a suicide mission. In Red Like Roses Part 2, we get the following lines from Summer's point of view:

"I didn't have a choice, I did what I had to do; I made a sacrifice, but I forced a bigger sacrifice on you."

"But, baby, please don't do what I did; I don't want you to waste your life in vain."

"You're not the only one who needed me; I thought you understood."

She could've been sent on a dangerous mission that the government knew was a high enough risk that there was a good chance she could die, but they didn't care. She ended up cornered into a choice between saving herself or saving the people she was supposed to be protecting, and she chose to save the people she had to protect, putting her life on the line and ultimately ending up killed. It's possible that the government sends hunters on jobs like this a lot and don't care if they die. They just wave it off as a "noble sacrifice." Back in the old days, it was common for hunters to have a high death rate, so the government just waves off the death rate as normal, despite the fact that it should be lower now that the kingdom is as established and advanced as it is now. Cinder (or Cinder's boss, if she has one) found out, and she wants to do away with that old, archaic way that the government is using. She wants to tear down the government and rebuild it the way it should be.

At least, that's my theory.