Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-27144409-20160218225042/@comment-79.235.201.207-20160412092507

Seems to me that there should be something in mythology, or fairy tales that inspired her power. If we figure out what it is we might get an idea of what it does exactly.

The obvious candidate with the light and the wings and all would of course be an angel, but I am unaware of any stories about angels that freeze anything, I had the slightly crazy idea to interpret the events at the end of volume 3 as very loosely based on the apocalypse (it does look like the end of the world if you sit around at Beacon), where an arch angel battles Lucifer who has taken the shape of a dragon, defeats him and leads up to the return of a messiah (Ruby). In the RWBY world that could mean the wing thing was a one time thing and the awakening of Rubys true power, which she will use to bring about a new world, possiby ridding it of grimm or something like that. As for the nature of her power I am clueless and there are a few flaws here and there, such as Salem being the big bad and not the dragon (though she could be inside the dragon, using it as a vessel) the lack of any other connection between RWBY and christian mythology that I would have noticed and the real battle obviously still to be fought. Also I am not very knowlegable on christian mythology and I am to lazy to read the bible, so I have no idea if any of the things I use to base my idea on are actually right.

Are there any other winged feathery creatures strongly associated with light in any mythology that you are aware of that one could construct a theory around?