Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.247.91.107-20140511154823/@comment-14909251-20140804045406

I like the idea of Ruby's father having been in love with Summer because she was some sort of heroic legend. Like they were both on the front lines fighting against the Grimm and one day they just forgot the world and carried on an affair that produced Ruby. Summer, for one reason or another, steps away from the battle to care for Ruby by herself. Perhaps it is because Ruby's father has a wife and child so she does not want to be a problem for them or just because she is a strong, independent woman. Yet, the call to duty and honor becomes too great and she leaves Ruby in the care of another, like Qrow. It then becomes such that circumstances leave Ruby's caretaker unable to continue and thus little Ruby, perhaps not even five, is brought to the door of her father. The truth of his secret tryst is now plain for all to see.

Yang, quickly becomes the doting older sister, while her mother becomes distressed by the evidence of her husband's infidelity happily scampering around the house with her own daughter. Worse yet, Summer's legend is known all too well to her and she can only feel inadequate by comparison. Before long she can no longer bear the stress and abandons her husband and her daughter. No longer burdened by the appearance of impropriety, Summer begins becoming a regular fixture in the life of her daughter and her daughter's sister until once more retiring from the battlefield to care for her family in a more traditional setting. However, it is not long before the call to defense of the innocent is again too loud for the legend to resist and she regretfully departs, only to fall as a hero.