Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.84.15.225-20150807131522/@comment-4010415-20150817205025

Hopefully, they'll eventually explore what happened. Basically, here's what I figure from the RLR2 lyrics...

Summer used to swear to Ruby (and likely Yang, as well) that everything would be okay, she'd complete the mission and come home fine. And she believed it, too.


 * "And all the times I swore that it would be okay; Now I'm nothing but a liar, and you're thrown into the fray." - Summer


 * "I never planned that I would leave you there alone, I was sure that I would see you when I made it back home." - Summer


 * "How could you leave me when you swore that you would stay?" - Ruby


 * "You were the one I needed, and you left me as I always feared you would." - Ruby

Summer went on a mission where she ended up having to protect/save people.


 * "You're not the only one who needed me; I thought you understood." - Summer

If it was a suicide mission, that fact wasn't made clear to her when she took it. So, either she was tricked into taking a suicide mission or she took a mission that turned out harder than expected and things went south too quickly for her to get backup or evacuate the nearby civilians. In the end, she decided that, first and foremost, her duty is to protect the people.


 * "I never planned that I would leave you there alone, I was sure that I would see you when I made it back home." - Summer


 * "Wish I could talk to you, if only for a minute; Make you understand the reasons why I did it." - Summer


 * "I didn't have a choice, I did what I had to do; I made a sacrifice, but forced a bigger sacrifice on you." - Summer. The sacrifice being that Ruby lost her mother. Not only did Summer sacrifice her life, she sacrificed Ruby's mother. This also shows that she was under pressure, in a very difficult situation.

There was at least some shred of hesitation or... something.


 * "Would I change it if I could?" - Summer

There are some lines that bring up questions.


 * "But, baby, please don't do what I did; I don't want you to waste your life in vain."

A lot of people think that Summer didn't want Ruby to become a huntress because Ruby might end up in a similar situation. And it is possible that Summer's sacrifice didn't have the intended effect, hence "waste your life in vain."


 * "I tried so hard just to protect you, but I failed to, And in a prison of abandonment I've jailed you."

Protect her from what? The realities of the career as a huntress?


 * "Every nightmare just discloses It's your blood that's red like roses"

Did Ruby see Summer's blood? Perhaps her cloak was stained with it?