Talk:Summer Rose/@comment-28171999-20190712203505/@comment-4010415-20190716184546

That doesn't change the fact that they planned the entire story beforehand and didn't create Summer until after they had already made their plans. Trying to make it to where Summer is still alive would've changed the course of the story too much.

Not to mention that, if Summer were still alive, Ozpin wouldn't have really needed so badly to move Ruby up 2 years to start attending Beacon. He would've already had his Silver-Eyed Warrior doing specialized missions for him, and recruiting a kid who's still learning wouldn't have been necessary. If he already had a Silver-Eyed Warrior working for him, he likely wouldn't have wanted to involve Ruby specifically because she's so young. Remember the exchange between him and Ironwood in the beginning of Volume 2 - Ironwood asked if he really thinks his children can win a war, and after Ironwood left the room, Ozpin said to himself "I hope they never have to." He doesn't like involving children in his war. He even told Glynda to just let Teams RWBY and JNPR be kids, after their food fight.

It's also better for the protagonist to not start off with the ultimate knowledge of how to use their super ultra monster-killing laser eye beams from the beginning.

So, basically, they probably would've introduced Summer, had Ruby not know about Silver Eye powers yet, and then killed Summer off to get Ruby deeply involved in the plot. Though, they didn't want RWBY to start off with dark and serious stuff.