Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24162340-20131112232724

Alrighty, new to this forum but I had a brainwave follwing the volume 1 finale.

During the last scenes of episode 16 we see Ozpin get a message from Qrow saying "queen has pawns." For no particular reason I believe that Qrow was referring to Crimson hiring/working with Torchwick and the white fang. The fact that Qrow uses the word queen rather than crimson's name suggests that both Ozpin and Qrow used to know Crimson, and for whatever reason she went bad. I think that Qrow is spying on her movements and reporting them to Ozpin so they can keep track of her. Why though?

Now my theory is that Qrow, Ozpin and Crimson were once teammates at Beacon, and that the fourth member of the team was Ruby's (supposed) mother, Summer Rose (as seen on the grave in the Red trailer). At some point after their time at Beacon I believe Crimson went bad (no idea how or why) and ended up killing Summer, after Ruby had been born. Ozpin may not have known that Summer had a child, and the reason he pointed out Ruby's silver eyes was because that's when he realized she was Summer's kid (who likely also had silver eyes). With Qrow teaching at Signal he came across Ruby going to school there, and decided to start to train her to eventually become a huntress like her mother. Also, I'm pretty sure that if this was the case, Ruby has no idea her mom was a huntress. This doesn't explain why Qrow wouldn't have told Ozpin about Ruby though, or what caused Crimson to kill Summmer, but its just a theory thats been floating around in my head ever since episode 16. I can't say that I've based this idea on any particular evidence from the show, but I thought it was an interesting concept.

If anyone has any thoughts I'd love to hear them, even if you think this is total crap haha. 