Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-99.249.188.51-20130915004958/@comment-198.7.58.81-20130915150632

There's some speculation that Summer Rose is an ancestor - possibly mother or grandmother - of Ruby. Also, if you look at the lyrics in "Red Like Roses: Part II", it seems like Ruby lost someone very close to her and has been somewhat affected by it ever since. You'll notice that Ruby wants to make friends but finds it difficult; and although she and Yang refer to each other as sisters, they have different last names and may be adoptive sisters.

Also, since that song played while Ruby was taking out the Nevermore, it might be a reflection of her thoughts/emotions at that moment. If that's the case, it's not unfeasible that Ruby's loss in her past is what really drives her to hunt Grimm.

Obviously the poem has to have some meaning, but the question is whether it's applying to Summer Rose or Ruby. If it's Summer, it might give us an idea of how she died; perhaps she and her team were fighting a very strong monster, and her teammates were either killed or abandoned her, and she was unable to defeat the monster on her own. That's why her grave states "Thus kindly I scatter" (directly taken from the poem); the poem itself is saying that the rose is beautiful, but lonely, and is better off with its petals scattered where its "friends" lay.

If we're relating it to Ruby, it does seem to foreshadow some very dark future events. It's also worth pointing out that when she kills a monster, it turns into petals which scatter everywhere. That doesn't happen with anyone else, though, and we saw Weiss bleed in her trailer. I tend to think the poem is supposed to be relevant more to Summer Rose than to Ruby.