Talk:Maidens/@comment-26512661-20180623060115/@comment-4010415-20180623205316

I had thought that the way to tell would be to look at the color of their eye flares, since Amber and Cinder both had orange flares. However, Raven's are red, and Spring is green.

And we know there isn't some plot twist of "Oh, whoops, turns out that Raven actually has the Summer Maiden powers, and this whole time, everyone had thought that Maiden was Spring for some reason" because Raven successfully opened the Spring Maiden's door.

So, it seems that the eye flare color correspond's with the Maiden's Aura color, not which Maiden she is. We know that Amber's Aura was yellow-orange, which matches her light orange flares. Cinder's Aura was orange, which matches her orange flares. Raven's Aura appears to be red, which actually also matches Qrow's Aura color being red.

So, I'm not sure how they tell which one's which. They really messed this up by not having the eye flares be color coded to the specific Maidens. Sure, green flames wouldn't look as good on Raven, but color coding can be important. There's a reason Monty color coded Dust, despite originally wanting the color of Dust to be irrelevant to its use so he could just make it whatever color would go well with the character's palette.