Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.20.165.15-20151217032629/@comment-172.100.229.184-20151223113559

What if the Ruby we know today is already a maiden, but just doesn't know it? If Summer Rose was a maiden, and if she's really dead, maybe her dying thoughts were of her daughter, and Ruby gained the powers then. That could explain why Ozpin brought her to Beacon two years early, among other things. Ruby mentioned in the first season that she hadn't been very good at fighting, but then got much better when her uncle (Summer's teammate, and maybe brother, and member of the super secret society that knows about the maidens) started teaching her. Maybe part of why he took her under his wing was because he knew or suspected she received the power, and that is also part of why she suddenly got so good.