Talk:The Four Maidens/@comment-33300379-20171216190348/@comment-25936766-20171216230145

The concept not being thought up until after/midway through Vol.2 is irrelevant, actually. Why? 2 words: Cinder Fall.

Maidens weren't a thing in Vol.1 and everything she did was Dust and skill. Then they were introduced into the plans, and she was retconned into actually being Half-Maiden by the time Vol.1 rolls around.

When the Maidens were introduced, the plans were changed. Thus, Summer or Winter being changed from whatever they were originally, into (also) being Maidens, is a perfectly-possible thing.

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Of course, that doesn't mean it is likely that they would've done that with these 2, or at least with Summer. For at least 2 reasons:

1>In-Universe: Unlike with Cinder, they share their first, AKA given names, with seasons. Given how the Maidens are a fairy tale as far as people know, chances are they were named after the seasons or the Maidens of the tale.

It'd be the same as naming someone "Aurora" after the Sleeping Beauty, or "Belle" after the Beauty from Beauty and the Beast.

2>Out-Of-Universe: The overload of power. Specifically with Summer, who already was a Silver-Eyed Warrior and profesional Huntress by the time she died.

Ruby alone, with barely 1 semester of Huntsman Training at Beacon, and no knowledge of the eyes, was able to scar a Maiden and petrify an Ancient Grimm in a flash with just a 1-week coma as "cost". Now imagine someone with much more skill and experience both with and without the eyes. That already sounds very powerful.

Now add the powers of a Maiden onto all that. And it sounds ridiculous. Cinder was able to kill Ozpin with minimal experience with the full powers (not to mention 1-shot-kill a Beringel, which took Ruby quite some minutes to kill a single 1), and Vernal can cause storms with minimal effort.

You don't even have to do the math to see how it'd make Summer horrendously OP, and thus ruin the narrative by making her death even less believable.