Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-99.249.188.51-20130915004958/@comment-14909251-20131015224857

Saw this and had a light bulb. What if we take the reference to "Last Rose of Summer" as talking about Ruby in a somewhat more literal sense? That is, maybe Summer was the matriarch of the Rose family with a long line of descendants, but all of them save Ruby have died or been killed. This would make Ruby the "Last Rose of Summer" i.e. the last descendant of Summer Rose. Oum said she has not developed a fear of death, but maybe that is because she secretly looks forward to rejoining her family. It is interesting how so much of what is associated with Ruby is very macabre, so perhaps this means she has something of a death wish and thus is reckless because she does not entirely care whether she lives or dies.