Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131126172552

I am an utter fool.

There was that one theory - one I currently think as extremely possible - sitting right before my eyes, and I never noticed it.

I dare say right here right now that the current White Moon in the RWBY World - the White Moon that was foretold to be disappearing - was a direct result of Summer Rose's Semblance. She was the one who created the Moon that somehow had the power to hold off the Grimm - or the Grimm's instincts to murder mankind, to an extent - and forestalled the inevitable destruction of mankind.

Who knows, maybe there was an actual Moon in the first place. But I'm going to guess that something happened to it, and Summer Rose sacrificed herself to recreate the same Moon - the real, but not real - to continue defend mankind from destruction. If my guess is correct, the Grimm could not even approach it; it is a power that could cleanse all Grimm to nothingness.

If we're going to suppose that Cinder's motive is the Moon, that the reason she gathered Dust was because it was the only thing other than Aura - which nearly impossible to get - she could gather enmasse and still affect the Moon. She wanted to destroy it with Dust, when the last time during Ozpin's time, something almost did.

The reason I've related this to Summer Rose is because I suddenly realize how similar the moon seemed to fragment into pieces just like her cloak does; just like how Ruby Rose's mysterious rose petals that seemed to peel endlessly from her cloak. In fact, I could literally imagine the moon peeling away the exact same way their cloaks did, except that unlike Ruby, the moon wasn't 'endless'.

It is in a way, the greatest illusion ever conjured. The real, and yet unreal. 