User blog comment:AK151/"Sacrifice" Analysis/@comment-24198837-20141106044653

For starters - Man, you didn't get enough recognition for this. Just putting this amount of effort into something deserves Kudos, but also having that something be intelligent and well-thought-speculation? That's rare. Nicely done ^^

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I mean, there's not much for me to say about the blog itself. I like it; your theory makes sense and you've found considerable support in the source material. What I liked the most about your analysis was your attention to the little things, like the repetition of "Fall"  likely relating to Cinder.

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However, I'd like to throw in my counter-theory here.

People seem to be skipping the very careful word choice in "The Moon will sadly watch the Roses die...". For one, it seems like the most... intense line in the song. The one Jeff intended the audience to focus on. When I hear it, my brain translates it to "The death of the Roses will cause even the Moon to sadden". Now, assuming that this is fancy wording and they don't mean the Roses will die (indicating Ruby's death, please God no), we can interpret it as meaning the death of the Rose, which I'll agree is Summer, was something beyond tragic - espevially to the speaker. Perhaps this "Fall from Grace" was not a process, rather, the sacrifice itself - Summer led such a wonderful life that her death was, in itself, a fall from grace. Now, this view - that Summer's sacrifice was her biggest flaw - seems like it would only manifest in someone who loved Summer more than anyone else in the world - someone who thought she was perfect. That's not a view that would be held by just anyone - not even a friend or loved one. The ONLY time we've heard this depiction of Summer is from one place: Ruby, in RLR pt 2.

So I say the speaker is Ruby herself - after she finds out about her past and Summer, of course. And she's not condescending, at least, not on purpose - she's angry; she's a teenager, going through puberty, and the person who's life she valued above literally anything else just willingly gave it away. She's shocked. She's furious. Her condescending tone could be natural push back againt having her life turned on it's head; having everything she thought she knew made into a grotesque mockery.

...Or maybe I just really want Ruby backstory. There's that, too.