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If you wanna know how Summer's death really affected Ruby, listen to Red Like Roses Part 2 while reading the lyrics on that page. It's a figurative conversation between Ruby and Summer's spirit. Like Yang said, Ruby was really torn up but too young to completely understand. In the song, it sounds like Ruby is partially blaming Summer for dying and doesn't understand that, just because Summer promised to come back home, that doesn't protect her from death.

Their dad, Taiyang, shut down because Summer was the second love he'd lost. For Ruby and Yang, Summer was the first loved one they had lost. Well, for Yang, the first she remembers losing.

Finding out about her real mother may have distracted Yang from grieving, which would've helped, since some people cope with grief by distracting themselves from it.