Talk:"Red" Trailer/@comment-189.134.159.147-20150909042303/@comment-4010415-20150909070800

Basically...

1. We have been told that all four trailers are canon and occurred before the start of the series.

2. The Red Trailer was more so showing off Crescent Rose and how Ruby uses it, as Monty hadn't come up with what personality Ruby would have yet. There's also the fact that the Red Trailer is basically a re-imagined version of the original video Monty first showed Bernie and Matt. He showed them a video of Ruby killing Beowolves, and then when Jeff made Red Like Roses, Monty changed the video to match up with the music.

3. If you're gonna bring up Red Like Roses Part 2 being about Ruby and Summer, make sure to mention that Jeff Williams, the guy who writes the RWBY songs, said it's about Ruby and Summer. I'm pretty sure the guy who wrote the song knows who it's supposed to be about. Basically, Monty usually discussed things with Jeff to help Jeff figure out what kind of lyrics to write.

4. "Summer's gravestone doesn't exist because the Red Trailer wasn't canon" kind of ignores the fact that the gravestone was present in the volume 1 opening, along with a ghostly figure wearing a cloak.

Yes, the white cloaked figure is ghostly, evidenced by the fact that the bottom half of their legs is pretty much invisible/transparent. This was obviously meant to show that whoever this person is, they're not physically there. They're not a living person physically standing behind Summer's gravestone. There's also the fact that they end up dissolving into white rose petals and disappearing.

5. When Yang said "One day, she left for a mission and never came back" in Burning the Candle, that was a dramatic and less-clunky way of saying "One day, she left for a mission and was killed." People in movies and shows say "never came back" to mean "died" all the time. In fact, I was watching something the other day, and someone actually said that someone "never came back" in that context. Add in the fact that Grimm eat people. There's a chance that all that was left of Summer was bones and scraps of bloody clothing. That, or a mangled half-eaten corpse.