Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-28099668-20171116205811/@comment-25936766-20171119023432

And so am I. And this is literally what it says:

"If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." — Trope Namer Anton Chekhov (From S. Shchukin, Memoirs. 1911.)Chekhov, master of the short story, gave this advice: If it's not essential, don't include it in the story.

''The term has come to mean "an insignificant object that later turns out to be important." For example, a character may find a mysterious necklace that turns out to be the power source to the Doomsday Device, but at the time of finding the object it does not seem important. The necklace was essential to the story, but its introduction downplayed its importance. Chekhov's advice was not necessarily to conceal importance, but to just not spend time on things that are not important. ''

The whole idea of "an insignificant object that later turns out to be important" is not what Chekhov meant at all. What he meant was pure Conversation of Detail. If something was not going to be important, there's no point in adding it to the work.

And at the end of the page, which you seemingly ignored, is this:

Also referred to as "the Indiana Jones principle" in Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor, named after Indy's early encounter with a snake at the beginning of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and how it set up his much larger encounter with them later on. Another term for this is "setup and payoff", a technique used by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale for the Back to the Future trilogy and regularly taught to scriptwriters nowadays. 

If you're going to say "this is what the page says", then learn to read it whole before doing so.

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As for the Summer and Ozpin part, it is pretty much not a theory in the slightest to say that Ozpin did know Summer, or that he could've linked Ruby to Summer due to their eye color. And considering Qrow works for him, it would be stupid if Ozpin didn't know Summer, considering Summer was literally Qrow's teammate.

The only thing that's really a theory is if Summer was in on "the secret" like Raven and Qrow, and/or whether Ozpin had anything to do with her death (like sending her on the mission she didn't come back from).