Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.84.15.225-20150807131522/@comment-71.84.15.225-20150811004149

Shadow at Morning wrote: She was KIA on a mission. We are told this explicitly, by Yang. ''And then... one day she left for a mission and never came back.''

This is transparently a euphemism for death, especially since the Grimm eat humans. We're already doing the missing-but-living parent song and dance with Yang (Raven), so it would be very bad writing to do it again.

As to your points:

You provide no evidence for your first. Hitchen's Razor rejects.

This line presumably means that Summer would not have wanted Ruby to become a Huntress, or at least not to participate in a suicide mission. It might have been something routine that went pear-shaped, or an important mission which failed after her death, so that her death accomplished little in proportion, or nothing at all.

See above; this did not happen.

She was explicitly a Huntress, not a soldier. Wow I am smart :D