Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-94.8.59.184-20140809221526/@comment-4010415-20151121033849

72.49.174.154 wrote: Red Like Roses II seems to be a ballad between Yang and Raven. Raven is missing and presumed dead (we know she's not... Yang and everyone else is not so sure). What better way to go undercover than to make everyone presume you are dead? Red Like Roses Part 2 is about Ruby and Summer, not Yang and Raven. Jeff Williams, who writes the songs for RWBY, said so himself, and back in Volume 1, the RWBY crew held a livestream after Players and Pieces came out, and they said Red Like Roses Part 2 was written because fans were disappointed that the first Red Like Roses barely said anything about Ruby.

Also, Summer is the one who's presumed dead. No one in the show has ever said anything about Raven being presumed dead, just that she left shortly after giving birth to Yang and, supposedly, no one has heard from her since then. I say "supposedly" because I think Qrow knows where she is. I'm not sure how much Taiyang probably knows, but Yang did say he wouldn't tell her everything.