User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: Who is Summer Rose?/@comment-10380701-20140809050503/@comment-24891101-20140809052831

The problem we run into with Summer knowing Cinder is that Cinder is young enough to pass as a college student. That means she would be mid-late teens at best when Summer died, assuming Ruby was 6-10 when she died.

Agreed on the Beacon thing. No way it's Summer.

Personality-wise we get a lot from RLR2. Her daily life was certainly filled with almost-casual badassery. The impression I get is that she took a routine assignment, maybe a bit riskier, or weirder than normal, and died unexpectedly in the line of duty. She also left something unfinished. She was also probably not home as often aas she'd like, kept in the field for weeks at a time occasionally, then home for a while, so Ruby coveted those times she was at home, and idolized her. I think Ruby and Yang were largely raised by their father, who I think is something rather less badass. Maybe even a baker, or something.

Summer seems to have been a member of our mysterious cabal of metaphor-lovers. I think she definitely knew Ozpin, and probably Ironwood. I sorta get the feeling that Glynda is a later addition (she seems younger).

As for Summer in combat, "Red" is probably a decent guide, in overall ability, but not in style. Summer didn't use a scythe, otherwise Ozpin would have made some allusion to her. I think she had some Yang-like tendencies too, though, in the reveling in combat vein. An utterly vivacious creature. But we're forgetting: it wouldn't have been her alone on the battlefield: her brother would be with her (I think we're all essentially in agreement that Qrow is Ruby's maternal uncle), cutting a swathe through enemies like a reaper in the field. White Cloak, Black Garb.