Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180105193053/@comment-74.119.254.64-20180108135322

BloodyRosalia wrote: I'm just throwing this out here and I'm probably completely off...

But based on just powers alone I don't think it's possible to distinguish the maidens beyond their ability to open specific relics.

I don't know how accurate the World of Remnant episode on maidens is, but from color scheme, the original Fall Maiden had an orange scheme, which fits the yellow-orange-fire colors emanating from Cinder's eye.

'''Spring however, is colored green. '''

From this recent episode, the effects from Raven's eyes gave off a red/pink color instead, which is why I'm more inclined to consider that Raven is actually the Summer maiden.

Of course, Raven identifies herself as the Spring maiden, so I don't see this theory being correct unless she was mistaken in the first place. (And it's more likely she encountered Spring in MIstral as we know Spring ran off from Mistral, after all. Raven did set up Vernal/the switcheroo herself. Or maybe Raven knew about the runaway Spring maiden, but met the Summer one instead? All up in the air.)

Honestly, we will see if this season switch-up is the case when Raven attempts to open the vault, if she can get past Cinder. The way the world is laid out, it sounds like the Summer Maiden would be in Vacuo and the Winter Maiden in Atlas, but I don't want to make these assumptions.

Low key, for the people who thought that members of RWBY would ultimately become the maidens, it's probably most apt to have Yang adopt Summer rather than Spring based on her themes of heat (and Fall with Ruby due to her weapon being inspired by "reap"/harvests. All the girls have their own flowers so I wouldn't use that reference). If Raven IS in fact the summer maiden, I would still say that she knew or cared about the Spring Maiden enough to try to cover for her by setting all this up. Or even just encountered her running away and empathized with her enough to agree to help her. If we assume that Ruby's Mom.....Summer.....was the Summer maiden, it's reasonable that Raven inherited that power from her.