Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4415312-20131105163950/@comment-28792888-20140316192818

My theory:  Summer Rose is the person at the cliff and Ruby's mom. The statue person is another distant Rose ancestress. I think that great-great-grandpa Arc and great-great-grandma Rose were two monumental heroes of the war (hence, monument.  Ha! Pun.). I think that G-G-G Rose was a mysterious heroine who showed up out of nowhere wearing a cloak that was red on the outside, white on the inside, like the one we see who I think is Summer Rose wearing in the opening, but inverted. She also had amazing skills despite her young age and silver eyes. Then, after the war, *cue Avatar: The Last Airbender voice* SHE VANISHED. Then, in the time of Ozpin, Qrow, Cinder, Roman and Glynda's Beacon days, there was another great war--maybe the Faunus War?--and Summer Rose (not GGG Rose) appeared out of nowhere with a white and red cloak, the one in the opening, a young age but good skills, and silver eyes. She was a hero of that war, and also knew Ozpin, Cinder, etc. But then she, too, vanished. Now Ruby, who I'm assuming had been overlooked until around that point by important people, comes out of nowhere with a red cloak, amazing skills, a young age, and, as Ozpin points out, silver eyes. She then gets put in Beacon so fast her head spins by Ozpin, who, unlike most, knows the details of the two young Rose heroes.