Talk:Red Like Roses Part II/@comment-64.77.249.203-20150108010205/@comment-4010415-20150108070827

Sorry about that. Though, I'm not sure if anyone in the show presumed Yang's mother to be dead. It's only said that she left Yang with Yang's father immediately after giving birth to her, and no one heard from her since.

Summer is the one who is presumed dead, and it seems like for the first few years of Yang's life, she thought Summer was her mother. Summer left for a mission and never came back, and in the Red Trailer, we saw a gravestone marked with Ruby's scatter rose symbol and the words "Summer Rose, Thus Kindly I Scatter," so it seems everyone assumes she's dead.

Considering the Red Trailer is about Ruby and its song is called Red Like Roses, the title Red Like Roses Part 2 tipped a lot of people off that it's supposed to be about Ruby, rather than Yang.

That, and back when they released the incomplete version of the song on iTunes, there was a livestream in which the RWBY crew said Red Like Roses Part 2 was written because we, the fans, were disappointed that the first Red Like Roses barely said anything about Ruby.

Ruby's theme seems to be things like red and roses, while Yang's theme seems to be things like burning and gold ("Yellow beauty burns gold," I Burn, and Gold).