Talk:Summer Rose/@comment-28171999-20190712203505/@comment-4010415-20190717042122

I feel like you only skimmed my comment before replying... If they introduced Summer without her having died before the series, that would have made them have to change the plans they had already finished making, which would have delayed the show from coming out, since Summer literally did not exist until Monty was making the Red Trailer.

On top of that, they likely would've ended up just killing her off early in the show without her having taught Ruby how to use her Silver Eye powers because the plot progression would have necessitated doing so. Thus, you still would've ended up feeling like Summer's potential was wasted.

Granted, due to her nature as a last-minute add-in just because Jeff gave Monty the idea for who is in the grave, we haven't seen her have much impact on the show or Ruby yet, but there is the fact that Ruby's memory of her was the final spark to activate her silver eyes against the Leviathan last volume. They could have Summer be Ruby's inspiration and motivation to be a Huntress and have memories of her help be a driving force for Ruby. Thus, she would still have an impact despite being dead.

Sure, it'd be less of an impact than, say, Edward and Alphonse Elric's dead mother had in Fullmetal Alchemist, but it'd still be an impact nonetheless, with both Summer and the Elric brothers' mother being what sparked the protagonists to follow the paths they began walking down in the beginning.