Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-1292715-20181223044830/@comment-142.161.182.205-20191117230749

We don't know what happened at the fall of beacon, we see Ruby witness Pyrhha's death, then she goes all SEW and cinder is severly injured from it. When I first proposed this hypothesis, it was that Summer could've possibly passed her maiden powers to Ruby, who repressed them and the psychological trauma of seeing her friends die cause her to reawaken it and nearly kill Cinder, since SEW powers don't normally affect humans, only Grimm, Salem, perhaps with prior knowledge of who was a Maiden, might've figured out the Ruby is a Maiden, and used her powers subconciously during her blackout at the Fall of Beacon. It is possible, for a person to subconciously or conciously supress their abilities, memories and powers, which can explain why Ruby doesn't display Maiden powers. ''Now, one thing that you had wrong was that Ozpin wanted to use the Maidens to defeat Salem, but this isn't exactly true, as Ozpins group has displayed a willingness to expend a tremendous amount of resources to prevent them from being discovered, and protecting them against Salems plots which is a strategy not at all offensive, but defensive, secretive even. Its possible Ozpin isn't aware that Ruby may be a Maiden, she is quite young and if she has repressed her powers and memories (As stated above) they wouldn't have a reason to specifically look for her, or have any leads, except her mother possibly being a Maiden, though Summer Rose may not have been, as this isn't a theory thread on Summer Rose, but rather on why Salem wants to capture Ruby, so where Ruby may have gotten Maiden powers from is a moot point, rather I choose to focus on the possibility of her being so based on the evidence portrayed, Salems behaviour towards her existence, being able to severly hurt, nearly kill Cinder despite SEW powers only affecting Grimm, and perhaps every little thing that we could spend hours compiling.'' Remember, not everyone knows who the Maidens are, as we see demonstrated with Raven who managed to trick Cinder.​​​​