Talk:Burning the Candle/@comment-71.188.112.18-20140907044335/@comment-4010415-20140907175521

.*Siiigh* No, Red Like Roses Part 2 is NOT about Yang and her mother. And I'll tell you why, from two different standpoints.

The crew:


 * The RWBY crew said RLR2 was written because fans were sad that the first RLR barely said anything about Ruby.


 * Jeff Williams said that RLR2 is about Ruby and Summer. Quote: "You're Ruby, and you're the mother." Considering he's the guy who wrote the song, I'm sure he knows what he's talking about.


 * It's Red Like Roses Part 2. Ruby's theme is red like roses. Yang's theme is burn and gold.

The lyrics:


 * "All the joy that I had known for all my life was stripped away from me the minute that you died." Died. Summer died, hence the gravestone in the Red Trailer and the volume 1 opening. Yang's mother left.


 * "Can't help but feel that I had taken you for granted." Yang never knew her mother, since she said her mother left her with her father right after she was born, so she can't have taken her mother for granted, having never known her.


 * "No way in hell that I can ever comprehend this!" Yang said Ruby was too young to fully get what was going on. She also said Ruby was really torn up about Summer's death. Throughout the song, Ruby acts selfish, almost blaming Summer for dying. Why? Because she didn't completely understand why Summer died.


 * "How could you leave me when you swore that you would stay?" Again, Yang never knew her mother. From Sandy's (Summer's) lyrics, it seems that Summer always told Ruby that everything would be okay whenever she left for a mission.


 * "You were the one I needed, and you left me as I always feared you would." Yang, not knowing her mother, wouldn't have feared that her mother would leave.

It's about Ruby, not Yang. I'm sorry, but I keep seeing people everywhere say "Omg this song is actually about Yang!" and not paying attention to the details.