Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4606441-20141024012020/@comment-24219008-20141024174753

Yeah, Summer Rose is definitely supposed to be dead. Plus, the mysterious woman didn't have a rose emblem like the one on Summer's grave and Ruby's stuff, so it's definitely not Summer. If you look more carefully at the clasp on her right hip, though, you can see a sort of bird-like shape that resembles Raven's insignia from Teen Titans, so I have reason to believe that the woman who saved Yang is Yang's mother, but is also a type of Bird Faunus, is Qrow's sister, and Yang is the human-Faunus hybrid Monty was talking about, and it also mean that Yang is kind of like a phoenix, with her Semblance emitting fire and also allowing her to become stronger with each hit she takes. Everything about Yang screams phoenix, and it goes with the bird theme of Qrow and this woman (I'm calling her Raven).

As for why she seems to resemble Adam so much and they use similar weapons, I feel like Raven used to be a part of the White Fang before it became corrupt, and she trained Adam. She also started the Grimm Mask "trend", but the reason she wore hers when she saved Yang was more to hide her identity than evoke fear. Neo knows who she is because she's probably "famous" throughout the White Fang, but she doesn't have a "specific" name as of right now so to keep her identity secret. She has it out for the White Fang, and has been secretly keeping an eye on Yang this whole time (possibly through Qrow, the "all-seeing eye"), and when she found out Yang, along with her teammates, was going after the White Fang alone, she knew she wouldn't stand a chance against Neo, and felt the need to protect her.

As for why she gave Yang up, when Yang was born, she received most of her father's traits, and didn't have any Faunus traits like Raven, and Raven was afraid that Yang would somehow either be ashamed, or she would face even more discrimination than just Faunus because she's a "half-breed", so she didn't want to put Yang through that.

....Anyway, that's my crazy theory....