Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26900758-20160218164047

I have a really unsupported theory: that Ruby will see every major character's death in the series.

First, evidences:


 * Roman, Penny, Pyrrha down, Ruby watched them closely. And Amber was minor in my opinion. (But Qrow, another scythe user seen her /saved what remained of her.) (I assume here that eaten by a grimm, and becoming scraps means death.)

Second, Allusions, symbols:


 * Her scythe: scythes are gardening tools. They aren't used for war~.There isn't any kind of martial arts based on the classical scythe. And whose got a scythe? Death.


 * Nora-Thor (died by poison), Lie Ren-Hua Mulan (committed suicide), Jaune Arc-Jeanne D'arc (burnt on a stake). if we assume the allusions are correct.

~(Except for Central and Eastern Europe in 17-19th century. Because war and revolutions was pretty common in those areas, and the peasants could get effective weapons fast if they modified their scythes into glaive-like weapons. And that was called a War scythe. But those scythes had durable blades before modification (unlike in Western Europe). And I don't really think any of the authors are well-versed in Eastern European History/martial arts)

I know really it's unsupported (maybe I'll delete this topic), it just simply bugs me why they gave Ruby gardening tool not practical for fighting, instead of a real weapon. Okay maybe the Rule of Cool but it still seems strange. (Yeah and I know Coco has a gatling gun in a handbag...) 