User blog comment:Duskeh/Significance of some of the Songs on the Soundtrack???/@comment-24182148-20131118030448

(im speedtyping this, so please forgive any spelling errors.) I actuailly came here looking for a discussion of Red Like Roses II.

heres my thoughts.

First, we see each show intro, and in Ruby's teaser trailer Ruby kneeling before a cliffside grave marker, with what appears to be a Ghost standing, facing the cliff.

Next we have the song in general. First the song was made FOR this show, so it does make a lot of sense that the song does in fact relate to the show. from here on is conjecture that from an ephinay im having. (when i get into something i get REALLY into it. i discovered the Rwby series about a week ago, and i've watched the series in full 4 times allready, and read a really big portion of the materials here on the wiki.... this usuailly leads my brain to start free-assosiating)

So in the song, we have Casey Williams and Sandy Casey singing a Back-and-forth song about loss (and from the line in the first Verse "Was stripped away from me the minute that you died" that someone seems to have died.) now what i find interesting is from the singers chosen and the compsition of the verses and (no disrespect to Sandy Casey) the voices, its a young person talking to the memory of a lost parent. Sandy Casey sounds older. for now, lets assume Ruby and her Mother.

Now, we also have some other interesting things going on. Ruby and Yang dont talk about there parents other than one comment ruby makes to yang "You sound just like DAD!". theres been no mention of ruby's mother at all. So heres what i think happened.

Rubys mother (and possibly father) were Hunters. possibly a team. they encountered someone or something during there duty that Killed Rubys mother (who by the name on the gravemarker was Summer Rose), this did some considerable psycological damage to her father, as to the point that he was ejected or quit the hunters. he diddnt want his daughters to join the hunters, leading to an estrangement. Ruby, being younger and needing a parental figure, latched on to her uncle. Yang being older, diddnt, but became a bit of a Wild Child.

Now, as an interesting sidenote here... what if summer rose isnt dead. but was corrupted somehow? if it happened in a way that her partner wasnt aware of and she was just gone... they would think she is dead. my point here is what if Yang doesnt believe it, and the Woman she is looking for in her intro video is in fact Summer Rose?

Hopefully i havnt re-stated too much here ;)