Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3257939-20151009080148/@comment-26339753-20151019153944

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Even if it was retailored, it's still a stretch to assume that it is Summer cloak. It could be possible, though the idea of it having been dyed red with her blood is extraordianrily morbid and really something that I don't see the happy-cheerful-naiive Ruby ever wanting to wear, especially if she was broken up about her mothers death. You may say "It's to remember her", but really, all I can think of when I think of Ruby wearing Summer's cloak dyed red with her blood is that Ruby will be constantly reminded of the day they told her she was dead. It's not the same colour, it won't have the positive connotations a white cloak would have.

Instead, it's the colour of Summer's blood, and the only time she saw it was after Summer died. Not exactly the most happy of connotations.

I suggest a compromise; Summer had a spare cloak. This was retailored to fit Ruby after Summer's death, and as she grows they've been letting out the material that was folded up into the hem, instead of it having been cut off. Ruby decided she wanted a red cloak to suit her name, rather than a white cloak, but didn't want to stop wearing her mothers cloak so they dyed it with fabric dye, rather than blood.

Also, as for the point about Ruby not wanting to abandon the cloak in the fight against the Nevermore; that wasn't it at all. She was pinned in place, and when adrenaline and fear are rushing through you, it's very hard to do finicky movements like undoing buttons Add in the fact that the pins holding her cloak in place are cross shaped, and it makes it even more difficult - I've worn clothing with funny shaped buttons. Even on a normal day, it was difficult to undo them. Plus in her panic she tried to pull it free, just like anyone else panicking would have done. It was less wanting to abandon it, and more she was panicked and high on adrenaline, your brain doesn't work properly in those situations. That certainly makes sense. I only wanted it to be the same cloak on the ground that it would give Ruby some, any, characterization. Wearing your mothers blood stained cloak certainly is morbid, but so is slicing live creatures in half with an oversized gardening tool, or seeing a new type of Grimm, reacting in amazement, and having the first thought that comes out of your mouth be "let's kill it!".