Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.84.15.225-20150807131522/@comment-14909251-20150913225111

ChishioKunrin wrote: I think part of it is just that so many of us want her to be dead because we hate what the writing would be like if she's actually alive. The writing is bad enough, and they've been trying to make efforts to improve it, but Summer being revealed to be alive has a high chance of being sucky writing. While it does have a chance of being sucky writing, it also has the chance of being brilliant writing. That depends on how they explain her absence after apparently dying and what happens when people learn she is alive. After all, if she is alive then both Ruby and Yang are going to feel seriously betrayed. It also begs the question of why didn't go back to them.

In the end of Breach, Ruby says that a lot of people got hurt. Not killed, hurt. Many of us are hoping that they retcon this in volume 3. At the very least, some civilians should have died in that situation. Breach gave them the perfect opportunity to show Grimm actually being as dangerous and as much of a threat as they keep playing them up to be. Emerald, I believe, did say a lot of Faunus didn't make it out of the tunnels. Given the situation that seems to be confirmation that they were killed and presumably by Grimm after being knocked off the train or because they failed to get on the train. I don't think you can make much out of what happened in Breach since they were clear these Grimm were young and stupid and you had Hunters on the scene at the start. There is also the fact that Roman and The White Fang probably didn't have to time to plan it out as they intended, so there were less effective.

The Bespectacled Guy wrote: Sandy Casey's outright confirmation that Summer is dead... These factors clearly signpost the true nature of Summer's "disappearance".

Where did Sandy Casey confirm this exactly? Even if she said this, I don't think you can put too much stock in that. Jeff Williams would have to know if Summer was still alive so he could write the song in a way that allows for that to be true. Casey doesn't have to know anything in order to sign the part of Summer and can thus assume she is dead.