User blog comment:Ltmaroon57/Maybe Summer Is Alive?/@comment-4010415-20180831005902/@comment-26018514-20180831184526

Except...

1. Ozpin IS dead, essentially all that remains is like master Roku in AtLA, his spirit and memories.

2. Summer didn't "die" in the series, she "was dead" there is a difference, and very rarely does the latter turn out to be false, because essentially it is the bedrock of the story, which writers don't tend to change unless there is a great place it can get them... but in this case it changes almost nothing and doesn't fit the character.

We don't KNOW Summer, she is barely a character for us, so bringing her back for the audience doesn't really accomplish anything. Bringing her back for the characters doesn't really work either because you then need to explain why she never returned to children she loved and thought the world of for over 10 years... it just isn't in her character. This leaves one of 2 options:

1. She is dead as per known canon

or

2. She isn't Summer Rose anymore/is captured.