Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131114110913/@comment-10390252-20131114193542

I've just listened to the album version of 'Red Like Roses, Part II' and a thought struck me.

What if I were interpreting this wrong all along? The singer of the first verse doesn't sound like the Ruby Rose we know: happy, bubbly and generally always looking for the best in people. No, that person is a lot darker, someone stricken by despair and anger. So, what if it wasn't Ruby singing about Summer's death and Summer apologising from beyond the grave?

What if it was Cinder singing about her twin sister's death?

Think about it: the twin Rose sisters, Summer and Autumn, amongst the greatest of the Huntresses of their generation. However, when Summer died on a risky and highly unofficial mission personally assigned to her by Ozpin and Qrow, Autumn was driven beyond despair and into a kind of self-destructive madness. She became embittered, vengeful and vindictive. She abandoned her old identity and became Cinder Fall, a force of chaos determined to destroy the human civilisation for the preservation of which Ozpin had sacrificed her sister's life.

So it falls to Ruby to do what her mother could not do... what her aunt refused to do... and to save the world of Remnant from the dying of the light.

And, one way or another, possibly redeem her aunt from her fall into the Dark.

Thoughts?