Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.84.15.225-20150807131522/@comment-25555436-20150914001401

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: Emerald, I believe, did say a lot of Faunus didn't make it out of the tunnels. Given the situation that seems to be confirmation that they were killed and presumably by Grimm after being knocked off the train or because they failed to get on the train. I don't think you can make much out of what happened in Breach since they were clear these Grimm were young and stupid and you had Hunters on the scene at the start.

1-"Didn't make it out of the tunnels" doesn't = "The Grimm massacred them all". They died thanks to Roman and arguably Glynda, whose actions are the reason their fate was sealed. Even if the tunnels had no Grimm at all, even if there were and the WF mooks survived, since they can't escape, they would have died of starvation if not commited suicide.

2-Yes, most of the Grimm were young and stupid, but you're forgetting a few things: 1)It's been 2 years IRL, it's about time they showed a real adult Grimm, instead of all these countless 1-HP-Wonder red shirts. And 2)There were Deathstalkers, the closest thing we have to adult Grimm. Like 4 of them got 1 hit Killed by Coco in less than 6 seconds in a single scene. And Coco is far from a graduated Huntress. If a 2nd-3rd Year student can cause that much damage, imagine what a profesional Hunter can do. Suddenly the whole idea of the Grimm being a menace desintegrates and falls into the Void.

Honestly, Summer needs to be dead. She is the only thing that can be used as evidence that at least some Grimm can kill a Hunter, at least until RT tells us that it wasn't a Grimm what killed her. If she dies, then the Grimm are no threat at all, and have no evidence to support such claim.

In other news, I got an idea. Lots of noobs and ignorants say "She must be alive!" simply because Yang didn't outright say "she died", instead using an euphenism. Other, more inteligent people, say that she is dead and it's freaking obvious. I've been thinking of a 3rd option. Basically, Summer died....and lived. Yes, it's possible.

The idea is that the Grimm didn't get to kill her, but Summer herself was gravely injured (probably fell off the cliff where her tomb is after being hit). While she survived one way or another by pure luck, the injuries were so great she suffered amnesia. She eventually recovered physically, but her memories are gone. She has no memories of "Summer", and her current identity's personality is very different from her. She may have the same face and body, but she's pretty much someone else entirely.

Biologically, Summer is alive. Psychologically, Summer is either dead or in a very long coma. This could be used for a future arc in a future volume, and pleases both sides. You want Summer alive? She is. You want her dead? She is.