Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10317392-20140801035045/@comment-10390252-20140812211558

It is not unthinkable that Summer, although an obedient soldier, was more and more disenchanted with Ozpin's strategy of training the best possible Huntsmen and Huntresses and using them as a bulwark against the oncoming tide of darkness ("For there will be no victory in strength...").

In later years, since her death, perhaps he has begun to wonder if she was right, if the threat wasn't the Grimm or even dark humans and Faunus but something inherit in people that needs to be changed. This would explain his odd speech on the first day. He increasingly feels that something needs to change within people to turn things around, even if he is not entirely sure yet what it is.

Maybe it is Ruby's historical role to show him what he needs to do. That maybe the secret likes in a simpler, more honest soul.