User blog:ImposterParrotGrass/Dr. Summer and Mrs. Crimson

Note: this theory was, obviously, heavily influenced by listening to the Jekyll and Hyde soundtrack. I don’t necessarily believe it, I just think it’s cool and wanted to share it.

It’s nothing new to say that White Clock(For the purpose of this theory, Summer Rose) is Ruby’s mother, or even that Crimson is. The bases of this theory is that both are right.

Now we know that all humans have dark and light inside them, and that Grimm lack souls. I’m also assuming that Grimm are all dark. We know that humans have been fighting them since they came into existence, and have never been able to truly destroy them. What if someone decided that maybe the reason they couldn’t vanquish the dark is because they need concentrated light, a perfect being. That person was Summer Rose, and she had see too many of her friends die at the hands of the Grimm, and wanted to destroy them once and for all, no matter the cost. With the support of professor Ozpin, she started an experiment to manipulate her Aura in hopes of removing anything dark from her soul. As we’ve seen, they can monitor ones Aura digitally, so who knows the extent of what they can do with that.

After years of research and testing, they attempted to  make the separation. However, this went horribly wrong. The dark and light were successfully separated, but they somehow ended up removeing her light instead of her dark. Summer, her dark side in control, escaped the research facility, killing everyone in her path but Ozpin. Thus, she became Crimson.

Ozipn covered up the disaster as well as he could, and Summer Rose was anounced dead. Her young daughter Ruby was placed under the care of the Xiao Longs, and no one knew what really happened but Ozpin.

But what of Summer’s light side? It still exists today as a being of pure Aura, and abides near her grave taking the form of a figure in a white clock. Ozpin has tride to comunicate with it, to apoligize, but all she will only tell him that she does not stay for him, and that it is not yet time. But when ever he aproches her, he hears her sing “Red Like Roses”, and mutering about “needing a simple soul”.

To reiterate, I don’t really think this is plausible, and I’ll admit there are some massive leaps in logic. But I still think it’s really cool.