Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-1996340-20130815235115/@comment-80.136.227.194-20141018212207

my theory?

the cloak is an ideal. the ideal view ruby has of her mother through the tales of her sister and relatives, that's why it's white, it's the picture that is fostered by the adoration of your family, an incorruptible legend, but nothing more, disembodied if you want to call it that.

also, the red lining is a hint on it's own, it's rubys view of that ideal. while all that adoration has her left with a feeling to walk in her mothers steps, she fears this path. as it's a path that led such a great person into death and thus her cloak is sullied (as per red like roses part II) and all this creeps slowly up on her. she throws herself at grimm with reckless abandon because of doubt and grief that are slowly creeping up in her, even in her dreams, as she fights to aspire to an image she can't ever reach and throws herself with full force at that problem.

in my mind, she has taken on her mothers cloak, because she needed to, because it's all that was left of her mother and that's the reason she sees that white shade on the cliffside altar. that part of the intro and the trailer seemed already more dreamlike than everything else, imho.

hell, and there i thought the other girls hat some problems.