Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141024002244/@comment-30764484-20141024020232

While the plot setting (Yang) is obviously suggestive of Yang's mother, everything else is far more suggestive of Summer. Her being Summer was definitely my first impression.

I get the feeling mystery lady might be behind this whole thing, like maybe while Roman, Cinder, the White Fang and such, the people she's using to get this done aren't the greatest of people, her motives are something much more important than just letting Grimm into Vale for the lulz. She needs this plan to happen, but she also doesn't want harm to come to her daughter / those she cares about.

Remember that Summer would care just as much about Yang, because she's her daughter too, even if not biologically. I get the feeling her appearing with Yang was, from a writing perspective, a bit of a red herring, and that it really is Summer.

Summer was said to have left on a mission and never returned, and while the lyrics to RLRP2 are an impossible conversation of course, they seem more suggestive of Summer being "trapped" or having to do something so important that she literally can't come back. I'm (sort of) thinking of Gandalf falling off the bridge to fight the Balrog, to come back later as Gandalf The White. That sort of thing.