Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-92.22.56.211-20141006153026/@comment-75.36.167.103-20141016175325

Chances are so minimal as to be essentially non-existant. Yes, we have the fact that they're both almost certainly blonde and Huntresses, and no good explanation for what happened to Yang's Mom. But beyond that, I don't see it. And that's a thin reed to try and build something off it.

Yang and Glynda have seen each other plenty of times in this series, and we have no real reactions of the sort that you'd expect if you saw your long lost Mother/Daughter, or even somebody who *really really looked* like they do. That goes well beyond what we would expect with "Witness Protection" bit.

Secondly, Yang's mother apparently disappeared long enough or definitively enough that Dad eventually came around to remarrying and having a whole nother kid. Which to me points to a pretty damn large amount of time, moreso the fact that Yang herself knows Summer as "Mom/Super-Mom" and identifies with her.

If it's been a long time since whatever happened happened to Summer, how long has it been since whatever happened to Yang's mother? That makes me believe that if she were still around, Yang's mother would be noticeably older than Glynda.

Couple that with the fact that we're having hints and bits everywhere of Glynda having a life that goes back a long while (her reactions/relations with Ozpin, Ironwood, etc.) that have nothing to do with the Roses. And I'd stamp the "No" Stamp down.

And yes, bleached or platinum blonde hair of that shade can happen naturally. And if they were that concerned about keeping secret, it's likely the bleach would be just a preliminary step to recoloring it with something Not-Blonde and so less recognizeable.

So I'd say I personally find the chance that Cinder's Yang's mother is more l ikely than this. Glynda strikes me as too young and too connected to the world to have just gone missing a decade or so back.