Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.84.15.225-20150807131522/@comment-14909251-20151001230610

I like to think Jen Taylor is playing the role of an unreliable narrator in those cases. She speaks with an element of sympathy for humanity, but is also forboding and ominous in a way that is more menacing. There is also Ozpin's response to consider:

But perhaps victory is in the simpler things that you've long forgotten. Things that require a smaller, more honest soul. That makes it seem like he is contrasting Ruby or someone like Ruby with Taylor's character. Simpler things long forgotten and a smaller, more honest soul, as opposed to the nature of Taylor's character certainly suggest a villain that has lived a great many years. It is especially true if you consider that Ozpin may himself be long-lived and thus for him to speak of someone as having long forgotten something, suggests she could be very long-lived indeed.