Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-64.113.177.152-20150121173112/@comment-26018514-20150320035103

I'm not talking of her as actually being dead, I'm talking of her as a characters sad past "dead to me" character, in other words...

to Yang, her mom was dead, then Taiyang cleared up that she wasn't.

this(Summer being alive) would be the exact same character beat... for Ruby

it would simultaneously be a resurrection of 50% of the shows known dead characters.

It can also be assumed that Cinder(as she is likely either evil stepsister or just Cinderella based, possibly twisted into being the evil stepsister as I believe may be closer to original grimm tale) also suffered the loss of a parent, so there isn't even a need to have another main character go through the perils of reconnecting with a dead parent.