Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-17765263-20130909232212/@comment-11188061-20130924172344

This could be the future, considering that this is 'Red Like Roses Part 2'. 'This Will Be The Day' speaks of a Ruby's initial innocence and hopeful outlook at the worst of things, whereas 'Red Like Roses Part 2' describes the grim reality that completely shredded any naive dreams she previously had.

It was a reason why somebody speculated that someone - Weiss Schnee, for example - may very likely die in the future. Another candidate scouted for death is Phyrra Nikkos (though for even sillier reasons in my opinion). Regardless, any person's death in the future would make Ruby extremely sober and far more serious than she actually was now.

Although improbable, because it is neigh unimaginable that RWBY would kill off any one of their main cast, but if we're considering Weiss Schnee to be a potential victim then why not consider Ruby Rose herself? The lyrics could've been describing the feelings of the remaining members of team RWBY in general, and Yang for one certainly would feel like a 'soul forever haunted'.

In fact, many of the behaviors described for this 'lost' person seemed to fit Ruby Rose, albeit more mature but ever so hopeful and bright. We already see that Ruby can be very serious in Episode 8, not even realizing Weiss was japping fun at her so that Ruby would praise her that 'she can'. Long story short, it is possible that the behaviors of this person who seemed to have heroically sacrificed themselves fit Ruby Rose.

More importantly, the last lyrics:

'Red like roses

Fills my head with dreams and finds me

Always closer

to the emptiness and sadness

that has come to take the place of you'

The only person we know who scatters red-colored, rose-like petals is Ruby Rose. She almost certainly is the 'red like roses, fills my head with dreams and finds me' described in there. It would then make more sense to assume that this is another person's view dreaming about Ruby Rose rather than Ruby herself dreaming about the White Cloak, because certainly that enigmatic figure does not scatter red petals (check the introduction, her petal colors are white).

Coincidentally, even before the release of this latest song there already seemed to be a LOT of Ruby death fanfics which may have eventually influenced my thought process on the lyrics. Still, this certainly seemed more concrete than blindly assuming that the White Cloak is this 'person' Ruby dreamed of.

For my own fun speculation: If this somehow someway actually come true, then it's not hard to assume that all of 4 trailers are describing events that would happen in the future. Now I know some people claimed that Monty Oum personally verified that the scar in the White Trailer was just an animation mistake (this literally is the most important evidence in deciding the timeline of White Trailer), but until they could provide an actual source to support it the so-called 'fact' may or may not be true. Certainly Monty Oum might even decide to turn back on his words (no one can prove it if his previous 'confirmation' was purely verbal and not stated black and white) because it would make the plot a lot more interesting.

Finally, I'd like to say just this: Almost no one, not even me, is really expecting that any people from the main cast would die. However, this may just be the VERY ballsy plot twist Rooster Teeth decides to pull on us and kill off someone important, someone as impossible as Ruby Rose herself in Season 1 no less, before reviving her in later chapters. It's incredibly improbable, but scientists say the same on the probability of the creation of our universe, with a far worse statistic too.