Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.84.15.225-20150807131522/@comment-4010415-20150910014421

73.Anon.52 wrote:

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

The only problem with Cinder being Summer's trainee is that Summer died at least ten years ago (Yang was about 5-7 in the flashback by my reckoning) ... Ages are likely closer to Ruby 2-3 and Yang 4-5(11-12 years prior). Ruby was barely a toddler which indicates her age range and Yang is definitely 2 years older... not to mention Ruby fit in the little red wagon which Yang took the entire way, indicating she could not yet walk. Not necessarily. I took it as Yang not wanting to put a strain on Ruby by making her walk all that way and knowing it would be faster and easier to just put her in a wagon so she could walk at her own speed and keep Ruby with her.

Though, true, Yang did describe Ruby as a toddler: "There we were: a toddler sleeping in the back of a wagon and a stupid girl too exhausted to even cry for help."

The thing is, you don't start forming memories until you're 3 years old, so Ruby had to have been at least 3 to have any sort of memory of Summer and how she felt upon being told her mother was never coming home.