Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-158.125.243.29-20150329080244/@comment-4010415-20150329164225

We haven't yet visited the issue from Ruby's point of view, aside from Red Like Roses Part 2, in which she seems pretty upset. Though, in RLR2, she's explaining how she felt at the time right after Summer's death/disappearance.

Yang said that Ruby "was really torn up." When she says that Ruby was too young to "really get what was going on," I think she means Ruby was too young to completely wrap her head around the concept of death itself, and judging from RLR2, too young to comprehend that, just because someone promises they're coming back, that doesn't protect them from dying. In the song, she acts like it was a huge betrayal that her mother died after promising she'd come home.

Ruby acts incredibly cheerful now, sure, but she it's been several years since then. Even though she has already grieved and moved forward, the memories will still be painful. If she doesn't think about it, it won't bother her. But when she does think about it, it still hurts.