Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-91.180.111.234-20130806100936/@comment-23784953-20130806103758

It's often my (self-proclaimed) job to disassemble theories. So let's get cracking.

For starters, while the general consensus is that Ruby is adopted, there is still no confirmation on that. There is a tiny possibility that Yang is the one adopted. As her way of coping, she has a lot of friends.

Now that we got that out of the way, let's go straight to your theory.

Believe it or not, the chance of this being true is actually... above 25%.

It ties with a theory of another user who originally had the addendum that Weiss' father wants to kill Weiss, in favor of his child with the "stepmother". You took this a bit further though.

Crimson, being Weiss' stepmother, while unlikely, is in the realm of possibility. Weiss is a Dust user, who just happens to specialize in ice-elemental Dust. Crimson is badass with fire-based Dust. The parallel is uncanny..

So all in all, a solid theory. But there's one fatal flaw that can potentially destroy it.

Why would Crimson ever directly go into the front lines of Schnee Company's rogue-ish operations and potentially expose who she is? If she wasn't lucky and the Magical Airplane Shadow(tm) didn't obscure her face or say Glynda managed to subdue them, she would've brought massive scandal on the Schnee Company and that is an all-around terrible idea. I mean, she *is* the current wife of Mr. Schnee, owner of the largest dust manufacturer in Vale (and possibly, planet RWBY), whose reputation is already at the pooper. If Crimson was exposed as involved with Roman, Schnee Company's boned.

It would've been better to have sent another henchmen the likes of the Malachite Twins since it'll be less likely for the Schnee Company to get exposed.