Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.84.15.225-20150807131522/@comment-25555436-20150909212814

12.27.66.8 wrote:

We are meant to believe Summer is dead. But why give her name and fairly obvious appearance and importance? Hey, she needed a name. Her death is what quick-started Yang's entire reason for doing what she does, and probably affected Ruby's decision to become a Hunter. Would you like it if such an important backstory character was a freaking nobody? Characters like her, characters that have at least some importance in the backstory, need to have a name, if not a title or nickname.

As for the appearance part, you mean the white hooded ghost? For similar reasons as for why Raven has Yang's exact face in ep12. She is important, yes....but not the kind of on-screen important, instead being the backstory kind. She doesn't need to appear in anything other than a flashback or similar, which wasn't going to happen any time soon back in Vol.1.

As such, they didn't bother giving her a more detailed appearance beyond a white hood. She wasn't going to appear in anything beyond the opening, so why bother. Just wearing a hood was enough to prove her relation with Ruby.