Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32346149-20190505185133/@comment-26018514-20190701165659

RWBY&#039;s fan wrote: The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: On an A story, but as she isn't a main Character we're talking B or C story at best, that's like 1 episode to 3 of actual content Given her significance to the plot Summer would inevitably be a major actual story in the series if she were alive. Since Ruby is the primary MC, Summer's involvement would be even more significant than Raven's and that was pretty significant.

I agree with that. If Summer is alive, she will be very important... Good backstories make good plot. As I've been explaining, RWBY(the existing main cast) is always the A-story, this means if Summer is alive, they'd need at least 2-3 episodes of B story just to explain the "false" death(unless they just did 1-2 episodes like Oz's backstory), then 2-6 more episodes(at least) explaining where she's been for about 12 YEARS, Raven's excuse was she's an asshole, from what we know of Summer she was selfless and a serious optimist. the problem then becomes; this is ALREADY half of a MOVIE that RT insist each season is... Summer would already be the entire focus, not counting the actual action she does in real time with RWBY.

Raven didn't even come close because her primary function was the emotions she raised in Yang, which is something Ruby hasn't shown in the series at all, and Yang would need to get in on too with Summer.

I'm all for STRQ backstory, but in order for RWBY to remain about RWBY, STRQ needs to matter less, and Summer being alive is something that makes them matter more.