Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161023154654/@comment-14909251-20161025204820

BenRG wrote: I've said this before but Salem, based on Cinder, seems to have a talent for identifying those who combined power and ambition with an antisocial mindset and are disaffected in some way. Raven could plausibly fit into this but it would have to be written very well to explain how Qrow missed that his sister had gone dark.

One possibility (which I have raised before) is that Raven is a deep-cover agent personally assigned by Ozpin to infiltrate Salem's group. In order to maintain her cover, she has been forced to do... questionable things. Things that, if she worked for a legitimate government agency rather than Ozpin's personal militia, would leave her and her controllers spending the next five years or so in front of varoious Boards of Inquiry. Thing is if we go with her being a deep-cover agent forced to do questionable things it just gives us even more reason to doubt Summer is dead. Were Raven embedded in Salem's crew, I am pretty sure one way Salem would have her "prove herself" is by killing her former teammate and it would be at least sort of believable given the whole got knocked up by her beau while raising her daughter as her own part. However, if Raven is not really evil she may have found a way to fake Summer's death convincingly enough for Salem and thus Summer has to stay hidden since she is supposed to be dead.