Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-9058532-20130807182204/@comment-28792888-20140105153247

I think that the mother of Summer Rose was Ruby's grandmother, keeping with the Red Riding Hood allusion, and she fought with Jaune's great-great grandfather in the war, only he was really old and she was really young. Even so, she had super mad skill and was put up with great-great grandpa Arc, but, eventually, the two and their party was ambushed and they went down fighting in one of the war's last battles, making them heroes, hence the statue. I think she had silver eyes and always wore a red cloak, and that she passed both of those traits down to Summer Rose, who was also really young but still had mad skills, and who knew Proffesor Ozpin when he wasn't a Proffessor, and that she and Ruby were really close, but then she died fighting off Grimm in the white forest. So now there's Ruby, young compared to the rest of Beacon but still has mad skills, and she wears a red cloak and has silver eyes. I think that Ozpin heard Ruby's last name, which was in keeping with Summer Rose and Grandma Rose, and decided that he wanted to talk to her, only to find that she wore a red cloak and was really young but, again, had mad skills, so he leaned in closer and noticed the silver eyes, and that's why he let Ruby go to Beacon. I think that Ruby and Yang are half-sisters and that Ruby's dad remarried Yang's mom after Summer Rose's death and, possibly, Yang's dad's death. That's why they have different surnames; Yang wanted to keep her dad's surname in his memory. Lastly, I think that White Cloak is, of course, Summer Rose, and that her cloak is white on the outside rather than red because she's a ghost.