Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160213154456/@comment-5277710-20160214021423

Ok this episode was intense, no doubt about that and I'm a little annoyed that we are going to have to wait but such is the life of waiting for shows.

I do want to ask WHY people are thinking that Ruby could not be the winter maiden just because Qrow told her as tory about silver-eyed guardians. Don't chew me out I just was to add my 2 cents here as there is evidence kind of supporting her as it is and then we just got some information from Qrow that could tell us the opposite.

We were told Maidens have their powers transferred when they died and usually the one they think of is the one they transfer to. IF summer was the Winter Maiden she could have had her last thought being Ruby hence she inherits the title and powers that goes with it. A little more support is that we usually saw the Maidens power kind of manifest through their eyes as well, we saw it with Cinder and Amber. During the ending part of the scene it also came out of Ruby's eyes the same way, the powers when used don't necessarily have to look exactly the same with a colour change, especially since the elements themselves look quite different. There is also the fact that apparently with said power Ruby FROZE the dragon in place and it isn't movie which gives more credit to her being the Winter Maiden. But all this is really only true if Summer again was the Winter Maiden.

Now Qrow could have told Ruby about silver-eyed guardians to have it make more sense to her. We have seen Yang's eyes change colour but only when she is mad and then they normally change back, so I'm not sure how much this theory would go if it would permanently change their eye colour when becoming a Maiden. Gives more credit to the long lines of silver-eyed warriors. They could have existed during the wizards time along with the appearing Maidens.

The truth of the matter here is that we won't know if she is a Maiden or not until Rooster Teeth decides to release it as a twitter post, during a live stream or during the next volume if Ruby decides to try and find out more. For all we know Cinder could now be after Ruby if she wasn't frozen.